In utero and early-life conditions and adult health and disease.

نویسندگان

  • Jasper V Been
  • Boris W Kramer
  • Luc J I Zimmermann
چکیده

To the Editor: In their article on the developmental origin of disease, Gluckman et al. (July 3 issue)1 state that “an altered long-term risk of disease is initially induced through adaptive responses that the fetus or infant makes to cues from the mother about her health or physical state.” This rather narrow definition and the overall focus of the review leave out adverse responses due to maternal exposures to environmental chemicals, occupational hazards, drugs, tobacco smoking, or infection. These factors are likely to make a very large contribution to adult diseases of developmental origin, and they have the advantage of being potentially preventable.2 Risk assessment of environmental hazards must therefore include the effects of developmental exposures to stimulate better protection of the most vulnerable life stages.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • The New England journal of medicine

دوره 359 14  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2008