Fetal origins of cardiovascular and lung disease
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Fetal origins of cardiovascular and lung disease
（Lung biology in health and disease, v. 151）
Dekker, c2001
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Description
This watershed reference presents epidemiological, clinical, and experimental evidence that cardiovascular disease, Type 2 diabetes, and chronic lung disease originate through adaptations to the intrauterine environment. These new findings suggest that major chronic diseases in adult life may be prevented by improving the nutrition of girls and young women to promote healthy fetal development during pregnancy.
Focusing on prenatal programming-the process whereby stimuli or insults at critical early periods of life have lasting effects-Fetal Origins of Cardiovascular and Lung Disease
demonstrates the associations between low birthweight and cardiovascular disease and Type 2 diabetes in adults
reveals the association between prenatal influences and hypertension and asthma in adult life
describes pancreatic development in the fetus when the mother is malnourished or experiences metabolic disturbances during pregnancy
examines the effects of undernutrition during gestation in experimental animal models
discusses how the human fetus adapts to variations in maternoplacental nutrient supply
details fetal influences on lipid metabolism, insulin sensitivity, the somatotrophic axis, andrenarche, and pubarche
and more!
Investigating when nurturing begins to influence and modulate gene expression, Fetal Origins of Cardiovascular and Lung Disease is critical for pulmonologists, cardiologists, pediatricians, neonatologists, obstetricians, internists, family practice physicians, and hospital interns and residents.
Table of Contents
Introduction
David J. P. Barker
Birth Weight, Blood Pressure, and Hypertension: Epidemiological Studies
David A. Leon and Ilona Koupilova
Mechanisms for In Utero Programming of Blood Pressure
Christopher N. Martyn and Stephen E. Greenwald
Low Birth Weight and the Emerging Burden of Renal Disease in the United States
Daniel T. Lackland, Holly E. Bendall, Clive Osmond, and Brent M. Egan
Intrauterine Nutrition: Its Importance During Critical Periods for Cardiovascular and Endocrine Development
Joseph J. Hoet and Mark A. Hanson
Physiological Development of the Cardiovascular System In Utero
Kent L. Thornburg
Non-Insulin-Dependent Diabetes and Obesity
David I. W. Phillips
Metabolic Alterations After Early Growth Retardation
Susan Ozanne, B. J. Jennings, and C. Nicholas Hales
Growth, Metabolic, and Endocrine Adaptations to Fetal Undernutrition
Jane E. Harding and Peter D. Gluckman
The Role of Hormones in Intrauterine Development
Abigail L. Fowden and Alison J. Forhead
The Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Adrenal and Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Gonadal Axes in Early Life: Problems and Perspectives
Stephen G. Matthews, David I. W. Phillips, John R. G. Challis, David B. Cox, Eric Jackson Thomas, Caroline McMillen, S. J. Lye, Roger B. McDonald, E. Marelyn Wintour, Janna L. Morrison, and Deborah M. Sloboda
Reduced Fetal Growth and Pediatric Endocrinopathies
Francis de Zegher, Inge Francois, and Lourdes Ibanez
Maternal Nutrition and Fetal Development: Implications for Fetal Programming
Keith M. Godfrey
Maternal and Placental Influences that Program the Fetus: Experimental Findings
Jeffrey S. Robinson, Caroline McMillen, Lisa Edwards, Karen Kind, Kathryn L. Gatford, and Julie Owens
Fetal Origins of Lung Disease
John O. Warner and Catherine A. Jones
The Nutrition Transition and its Implications for the Fetal Origins Hypothesis
Barry M. Popkin
Effects of Maternal Nutrition and Metabolism on the Developing Endocrine Pancreas: Experimental Findings
B. Reusens and C. Remacle
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