Early Nutrition and its Later Consequences: New Opportunities Perinatal Programming of Adult Health — EC Supported Research /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Koletzko, Berthold (Editor), Dodds, Peter (Editor), Akerblom, Hans (Editor), Ashwell, Margaret (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2005.
• Series: Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, 569
• Subjects: Medicine.; Pediatrics.; Developmental biology.; Medicine & Public Health.; Developmental Biology.

Health problems such as hypertension, tendency to diabetes, obesity, blood lipids, vascular disease, bone health, behaviour and learning and longevity may be ‘imprinted’ during early life. This process is defined as ‘programming’ whereby a nutritional stimulus operating at a critical, sensitive peri...