Fetal Nutrition and Adult Disease
Subtitle: Programming of Chronic Disease through Fetal Exposure to Undernutrition (Frontiers in Nutritional Science)
Publisher: CABI
Published: October 5, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 444
ISBN-13: 9780851998213
Subjects: Dietetics & nutrition; Materno-fetal medicine; Medical / Nursing; Fetus; Medical; Nutrition; Diseases; Medical / Nutrition; Etiology; General; Chronic diseases; Nutritionally induced diseases
First sentence: This book is concerned with the fetal programming of disease, and examines a new paradigm for considering the aetiology of disease, based upon a range of evidence from human populations and experiments with animal models.