Perinatal Programming (The State of the Art) || 8 Early life origins of diabetes and obesity: General aspects and the thin – fat baby paradigm

✍ Scribed by Plagemann, Andreas

• Book ID: 121721183
• Publisher: DE GRUYTER
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 326 KB
• Edition: 1
• Category: Article
• ISBN: 3110249456
• DOI: 10.1515/9783110249453.69

✦ Synopsis

Perinatal Programming addresses the environment-dependent setting of fundamental life functions and dispositions for diseases in developmental periods during pregnancy and in early infancy. It provides a new view of the origins of health and diseases. To realize these associations may enable us to prevent diseases for the long term.This book reviews actual state-of-the-art knowledge in the perinatal programming field. The authors are internationally known scientists of this research area.