Early origin of coronary heart disease (the “Barker hypothesis”)

BMJ

Volumn 310, Issue 6977, 1995, Pages 411-

  Paneth, Nigel ^a   Susser, Mervyn ^b  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Department of Epidemiology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIRTH WEIGHT; BODY MASS; CORONARY RISK; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; INFANT NUTRITION; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BIRTH WEIGHT; BODY MASS INDEX; CORONARY DISEASE; EMBRYO AND FETAL DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; INFANT NUTRITION; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 84970859395     PISSN: 09598138     EISSN: 14685833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.310.6977.411     Document Type: Editorial

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