Fetal Nutrition and Adult Disease : Programming of Chronic Disease through Fetal Exposure to Undernutrition. Frontiers in Nutritional Science Series, No. 2
Contributors; Preface; 1 Fetal Programming of Adult Disease: an Overview; 2 Nutritional Basis for the Fetal Origins of Adult Disease; 3 Intrauterine Hypoxaemia and Cardiovascular Development; 4 Epidemiology of the Fetal Origins of Adult Disease: Cohort Studies of Birthweight and Cardiovascular Disease; 5 Early-life Origins of Adult Disease: is There Really an Association Between Birthweight and Chronic Disease Risk?; 6 Experimental Models of Hypertension and Cardiovascular Disease; 7 Associations between Fetal and Infant Growth and Non-insulin-dependent Diabetes
Summary
Provides the reader with a detailed account of the evidence for and against the nutritional programming of human disease. This book also covers programming the fetus, programming human disease, and the biological basis of nutritional programming
