Southern Africa is good place to research role of fetal malnutrition in chronic diseases.
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Editor — We are interested in Scrimshaw's allusion to populations in Latin America in his editorial on the relation between fetal malnutrition and chronic disease in later life. There, in the 1960s, despite a high prevalence of low birth weight, the preva lence of atherosclerosis and of myocardial infarction was low.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- BMJ
دوره 316 7130 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1998