The window of opportunity
Subtitle: pre-pregnancy to 24 months of age
By: editors, David J.P. Barker, Renate L. Bergmann, Pearay L. Ogra.
Contributors: Barker, D. J. P.; Bergmann, R. L.; Ogra, Pearay L.; Nestlé Nutrition Institute.
Series: Nestlé Nutrition workshop series -- v. 61
Publisher: Karger; Nestlé Nutrition Institute; Nestlé Nutrition Institute
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Basel, Switzerland; New York; Vevey, Switzerland
Language: eng
Number of pages: 266
ISBN-13: 9783805583879
Subjects: Infants -- Nutrition -- Congresses; Fetus -- Nutrition -- Congresses; Infant Nutrition Physiology -- Congresses; Fetal Nutrition Disorders -- Congresses; Infant Nutrition Disorders -- Congresses; Maternal Nutrition Physiology -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The biology of growth / N. Cameron; title: Human growth and cardiovascular disease / D.J.P. Barker; title: The role of growth in heart development / K.L. Thornburg, S. Louey, G.D. Giraud; title: Growth and bone development / C. Cooper ... [et al.]; title: The role of genes in growth and later health / J.G. Eriksson; title: Maternal nutrition before and during pregnancy / T.O. Scholl; title: The diabetic pregnancy, macrosomia, and perinatal nutritional programming / A. Plagemann, T. Harder, J.W. Dudenhausen; title: Undernutrition and growth restriction in pregnancy / R.L. Bergmann, K.E. Bergmann, J.W. Dudenhausen; title: Growth and nutrition : the first six months / L.Ö. Hanson ... [et al.]; title: Growth in the first two years of life / D.M. Bier; title: Effects of early environment on mucosal immunologic homeostasis, subsequent immune responses and disease outcome / P.L. Ogra, R.C. Welliver Sr.; title: Induction of antigen-specific immunity in human neonates and infants / C.B. Wilson, T.R. Kollmann; title: Growth and host-pathogen interactions / A.M. Prentice, M.K. Darboe; title: Neonatal microbial flora and disease outcome / M.F. Vassallo, W.A. Walker; title: Impact of fetal and neonatal viral (and parasitic) infections on later development and disease outcome / Y.A. Maldonado; title: Environmental influences on the development of the immune system : consequences for disease outcome / B. Björkstén.