Keyword: Environmental factors

• Effect of In Utero and Early-Life Conditions on Adult Health and Disease

  Authors

  | Gluckman, P.D. | Hanson, M.A. | Cooper, C. | Thornburg, K.L.

  A long latency period between an environmental trigger and the onset of subsequent disease is widely recognized in the etiology of certain cancers, yet this phenomenon is not generally considered in the etiology of other conditions such as cardiovascular disease,…

  Journal : New England Journal of Medicine|Publication Date : 2008|Issue : 359:61-73

  • Effect of In Utero and Early-Life Conditions on Adult Health and Disease

  Keywords

  Developmental plasticity| Disease risk| Environmental factors| Genome and epigenome

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• Developmental Origins of the Metabolic Syndrome: Prediction, Plasticity, and Programming

  Authors

  | McMillen, C. | Robinson, J.S.

  The "fetal" or "early" origins of adult disease hypothesis was originally put forward by David Barker and colleagues and stated that environmental factors, particularly nutrition, act in early life to program the risks for adverse health outcomes in adult life.…

  Journal : Physiology Review|Publication Date : 2005|Issue : 85: 571–633

  • Developmental Origins of the Metabolic Syndrome: Prediction, Plasticity, and Programming

  Keywords

  Environmental factors| Health outcomes| Intrauterine environment| Metabolic syndrome| Nutrition

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