num_pages: 432
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
language: English
title: Fetal Origins of Cardiovascular and Lung Disease
titlecomplete: Fetal Origins of Cardiovascular and Lung Disease (Lung Biology in Health and Disease)
publisher: CRC Press