Developmental origins of noncommunicable disease: population and public health implications
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Developmental origins of non-communicable disease: Implications for research and public health
This White Paper highlights the developmental period as a plastic phase, which allows the organism to adapt to changes in the environment to maintain or improve reproductive capability in part through sustained health. Plasticity is more prominent prenatally and during early postnatal life, i.e., during the time of cell differentiation and specific tissue formation. These developmental periods ...
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1 School of Biosciences, University of Nottingham, Sutton Bonington, Loughborough LE12 5RD, UK 2University of Mississippi Medical Center, 2500 North State Street, Jackson, MS 39216, USA 3Rowett Institute of Nutrition and Health, University of Aberdeen, Greenburn Road, Bucksburn, Aberdeen AB24 3FX, UK 4Faculty of Health Sciences, McMaster University, 1280 Main Street West, Hamilton, ON, Canada L...
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OBJECTIVE To present a new branch of scientific knowledge, known as the developmental origins of health and disease (DOHaD), covering its concepts, study methods and ethical considerations in addition to the prospects for this area of knowledge. SOURCES A non-systematic review of the biomedical literature intended to identify historical and current references related to the subject under disc...
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عنوان ژورنال: The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
سال: 2011
ISSN: 0002-9165,1938-3207
DOI: 10.3945/ajcn.110.001206