Analysis of the influence of ontogenetic time and prenatal hypoxia factors on the morphometric parameters of the specialized contact apparatus in the rat ventricular myocardium.
Journal: Morphologia
Year: 2016

Background. Cardiovascular diseases remain the main cause of death around the world and among Europeans and despite recent decreases in mortality rates in many countries they are still responsible for over 4 million deaths per year. The proportion of all deaths that are attributable to cardiovascular disease is substantially greater among women (52%) than men (42%). Prenatal hypoxia causes morphological and functional changes in the fetus and newborn and, in particularly, in the myocardium. That