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Fetal Nutrition and Cardiovascular Disease in Adult Life

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At the start of the twentieth century, the incidence of coronary heart disease (CHD) rose steeply; it rapidly became the most common cause of death in Western countries. Its incidence is now rising in other parts of the world to which Western influences are extending, such as India, China, Eastern Europe, and Russia. As such rapid increases in incidence over a relatively short time cannot be the result of changes in gene frequency, attention has been directed at the environment, particularly the lifestyles of men and women in industrialized countries.

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Barker, D.J.P., Godfrey, K.M. (2001). Fetal Nutrition and Cardiovascular Disease in Adult Life. In: Wilson, T., Temple, N.J. (eds) Nutritional Health. Nutrition ◊ and ◊ Health. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-59259-226-5_16

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