Discusses a link between long-term effect of faster growth and programming for cardiovascular disease. Indication that early postnatal nutrition affects the components of metabolic syndrome; Discussion of research in humans and animals; How findings contradict public health recommendations and practice; Suggestion that the growth acceleration hypothesis could unify evidence and concepts in the common soil hypothesis and fetal origins hypothesis; Relevance to public health; Conclusion that early nutrition and growth contribute significantly to long-term cardiovascular risk.
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