High baby birth weight and risk of hormone-associated cancer in mothers: The cancer-cardiovascular disease dichotomy and its possible causes

Women's Health

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 361-371

  Berstein, Lev M ^a  

^a N N PETROV RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF ONCOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Birth weight; Cardiovascular diseases; Hormone related cancer; Macrosomia; Maternal morbidity mortality

Indexed keywords

ARTERIAL WALL THICKNESS; BIRTH WEIGHT; CANCER INCIDENCE; CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM; CARCINOGENESIS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR MORTALITY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; GLUCOSE INTOLERANCE; HEAD CIRCUMFERENCE; HUMAN; INSULIN RELEASE; INSULIN RESISTANCE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MATERNAL MORBIDITY; MATERNAL MORTALITY; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; NON COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; OBESITY; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREVALENCE; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEX DIFFERENCE; TESTIS CANCER;

ADULT; BIRTH WEIGHT; FEMALE; FETAL MACROSOMIA; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; NEOPLASMS, HORMONE-DEPENDENT; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, CARDIOVASCULAR; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 84880394207     PISSN: 17455057     EISSN: 17455065     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2217/whe.13.29     Document Type: Review

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