Peripartum cardiomyopathy (PPCM) affects women at the end of pregnancy or after delivery. Symptoms overlapping with decrease diagnostic yield PPCM and can increase rate maternal mortality. As clinicians manage high-risk patients, it is crucial to understand variable physiology both during childbirth. Effective management patients necessitates a comprehensive understanding The importance prompt ...

Department of Physiology, New York Medical College, Valhalla, NY 10595 (V.L., M.B., K.Q., F.A.R.); Sector of Medicine, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa, Italy (V.L., F.A.R.); Children's Nutrition Research Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX (M.E.Y.); Institute of Clinical Physiology, CNR, Pisa, Italy (V.L., F.B., T.S.); Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Case Western Reserve U...

It is tempting to see progress towards better maternal health in linear terms. If only, the argument goes, one could scale up evidence-based interventions and policies in all countries for all women, maternal mortality would fall and maternal health would advance. The past year has shown the desperate fallacy in this argument. The mortal dangers and uncertainties faced by millions of women and ...

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W.R. Frontera and L.S. Krivickas are with the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at Harvard Medical School and Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital, Boston, MA 02114. V.A. Hughes, R. Roubenoff, and Frontera are with the Nutrition, Exercise Physiology, and Sarcopenia Laboratory at the Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts University, Boston, MA. Contracti...

Recent findings suggest that many human fetuses have to adapt to a limited supply of nutrients and in doing so they permanently change their physiology and metabolism. These "programmed" changes may be the origins of a number of diseases in later life, including coronary heart disease and the related disorders stroke, diabetes, and hypertension.

* Department of Animal and Food Science, Facultat de Veterinària, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra, Spain ** Department of Nutrition and Food Science-CeRTA, Facultat de Farmàcia, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain *** Department of Animal Nutrition and Physiology, Danish Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Research Centre Foulum, Tjele, Denmark Manuskript eingegangen am 3. ...

[1] This project was funded by MKUBAP (08 G 0301) * University of Mustafa Kemal, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Department of Animal Nutrition and Nutritional Disorders, TR-31040 Hatay TURKEY ** University of Mustafa Kemal, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Department of Physiology, TR-31040 Hatay TURKEY *** University of Atatürk, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Department of Animal Nutrition an...