Life course perspectives on coronary heart disease, stroke and diabetes
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AGE 3 1 2 4 The risk of noncommunicable diseases accumulates with age and is influenced by factors acting at all stages of the life span. The main factors at different stages of life include the following: 1 Fetal Life fetal growth, maternal nutritional status, socioeconomic position at birth 2 Infancy and Childhood growth rate, breastfeeding infectious diseases, unhealthy diet, lack of physical activity, obesity socioeconomic position 3 Adolescence unhealthy diet, lack of physical activity, obesity tobacco and alcohol use 4 Adult life know adult behavioural and biological risk factors
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تاریخ انتشار 2001