Early-life nutritional programming of type 2 diabetes: Experimental and quasi-experimental evidence

Nutrients

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2017, Pages

  Vaiserman, Alexander M ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GERONTOLOGY   (Ukraine)

Author keywords

Epigenetics; Famine; Natural experiment; Quasi experimental design; Type 2 diabetes

Indexed keywords

SOMATOMEDIN B;

ANIMAL MODEL; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; DNA METHYLATION; DYSLIPIDEMIA; ENDOTHELIAL DYSFUNCTION; EPIGENETICS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; GLUCOSE INTOLERANCE; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HOLOCAUST; HUMAN; HUNGER; HYPERTENSION; INSULIN RESISTANCE; MALNUTRITION; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; MORTALITY RATE; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; NONHUMAN; NUTRITIONAL HEALTH; PROTEIN RESTRICTION; QUASI EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; REVIEW; SEASONAL VARIATION; ANIMAL; COMPLICATION; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; DIET THERAPY; DISEASE MODEL; FEMALE; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; MATERNAL NUTRITION; METABOLIC DISEASES; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; RISK FACTOR; STARVATION;

ANIMALS; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALNUTRITION; MATERNAL NUTRITIONAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; METABOLIC DISEASES; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; RISK FACTORS; STARVATION;

EID: 85014518101     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20726643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/nu9030236     Document Type: Review

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