Intra-uterine programming of the endocrine pancreas
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Programming of the endocrine pancreas by the early nutritional environment.
A substantial body of evidence now suggests that poor intrauterine milieu elicited by maternal nutritional disturbance or placental insufficiency may programme susceptibility in the foetus to later develop chronic degenerative diseases, such as obesity, hypertension, cardiovascular diseases and diabetes. Further data showing the developmental programming of the metabolic syndrome are now availa...
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عنوان ژورنال: British Medical Bulletin
سال: 2001
ISSN: 1471-8391,0007-1420
DOI: 10.1093/bmb/60.1.123