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Type: | Journal article |
Title: | Nutrition before birth, programming and the perpetuation of social inequalities in health |
Author: | Moore, V. Davies, M. |
Citation: | Asia Pacific Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 2002; 11(s3):S529-S536 |
Publisher: | Blackwell Science Asia |
Issue Date: | 2002 |
ISSN: | 0964-7058 1440-6047 |
Statement of Responsibility: | Vivienne Moore and Michael Davies |
Abstract: | The need to explain social inequalities in health has led to the theory that chronic disease is due, in part, to a legacy of adverse experiences in early life. Epidemiological studies show consistently that individuals who are small at birth have an increased risk of cardiovascular disease in adulthood. There is growing consensus that this association reflects a causal relationship and is not simply the product of bias or confounding. The concept of programming is invoked as the biological mechanism; birth size is thus a proxy for fetal programming. Recent findings suggest that fetal programming interacts with the post-birth environment. The adverse exposures that are thought to underlie and potentiate programming cluster in socially patterned ways, thus creating substantial inequalities in health. Experiments in animals demonstrate that nutritional interventions before or during pregnancy can produce programming phenomena in the offspring, sometimes without an impact on birth size. However, the extent to which maternal nutrition contributes to programming in contemporary developed countries is uncertain. |
Keywords: | Animals Humans Pregnancy Complications Prenatal Exposure Delayed Effects Cardiovascular Diseases Nutrition Disorders Obesity Health Status Pregnancy Infant, Newborn Infant, Low Birth Weight Female Prenatal Nutritional Physiological Phenomena |
Description: | The definitive version is available at www.blackwell-synergy.com |
DOI: | 10.1046/j.1440-6047.11.supp3.16.x |
Published version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1046/j.1440-6047.11.supp3.16.x |
Appears in Collections: | Aurora harvest Obstetrics and Gynaecology publications |
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