Secular trends in new childhood epidemics: Insights from evolutionary medicine

BMC Medicine

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Brüne, Martin ^a   Hochberg, Zéev ^b  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^b TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Autoimmune diseases; Diabetes; Evolutionary mismatch; Hygiene; Life history; Obesity; Pathogen exposure; Pediatric endocrinology; Psycho biological development; Psychopathology

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOLOGY; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; CHILD GROWTH; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CHILDHOOD OBESITY; DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY; DIABETES MELLITUS; EDITORIAL; ENDOCRINOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EPIDEMIC; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; HUMAN; INTROSPECTION; MEDICAL SOCIETY; MEDICINE; MENTAL DISEASE; PATHOGENESIS; PREVALENCE; PUBERTY;

AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES; CHILD; DIABETES MELLITUS; ENDOCRINOLOGY; EPIDEMICS; HUMANS; PEDIATRIC OBESITY; PEDIATRICS;

EID: 84887959841     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17417015     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1741-7015-11-226     Document Type: Editorial

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