Fetal origins of stress-related adult disease

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1083, Issue , 2006, Pages 11-27

  Kajantie, Eero ^a  

^a NATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

Author keywords

Birth weight; Cortisol; Depression; Gestational age; Metabolic syndrome; Posttraumatic stress disorder; Pregnancy; Programming

Indexed keywords

HYDROCORTISONE;

ADRENAL FUNCTION; ADULT DISEASE; ATYPICAL DEPRESSION; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM FUNCTION; BIRTH WEIGHT; CANCER; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CHRONIC PAIN; CONFERENCE PAPER; DEPRESSION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; FATIGUE; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; GESTATIONAL AGE; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HORMONE DEFICIENCY; HUMAN; HYDROCORTISONE BLOOD LEVEL; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; INFECTION; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MALNUTRITION; MATERNAL DISEASE; MATERNAL NUTRITION; MELANCHOLIA; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; NONHUMAN; OSTEOPOROSIS; PERINATAL PERIOD; PLACENTA DISORDER; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PREECLAMPSIA; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL PERIOD; PREVALENCE; PROPHYLAXIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SEX DIFFERENCE; STRESS; SYMPATHETIC FUNCTION;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 33845603028     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1367.026     Document Type: Conference Paper

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