Early childhood growth failure and the developmental origins of adult disease: Do enteric infections and malnutrition increase risk for the metabolic syndrome?

Nutrition Reviews

Volumn 70, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 642-653

  Deboer, Mark D ^a   Lima, Aldo A M ^b   Oría, Reinaldo B ^a   Scharf, Rebecca J ^c   Moore, Sean R ^d   Luna, Max A ^a   Guerrant, Richard L ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF CEARÁ   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^d CINCINNATI CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiovascular disease; Diarrhea; Environmental enteropathy; Fetal Origins Hypothesis; Nutrition; Stunting

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE TRANSPORTER 4; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR;

ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CALORIC INTAKE; CHILD; CHILD GROWTH; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; DIARRHEA; DYSLIPIDEMIA; ENTEROPATHY; ENVIRONMENTAL ENTEROPATHY; EPIGENETICS; GLUCOSE INTOLERANCE; GROWTH DISORDER; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS SYSTEM; INSULIN RESISTANCE; INTESTINE INFECTION; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MALNUTRITION; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; NONHUMAN; OBESITY; ORAL GLUCOSE TOLERANCE TEST; RISK FACTOR; SANITATION; STUNTING; WAIST HIP RATIO; WEIGHT GAIN;

EID: 84868115518     PISSN: 00296643     EISSN: 17534887     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1753-4887.2012.00543.x     Document Type: Article

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