Extensive experimental animal studies and epidemiological observations have shown that
environmental influences during early development affect the risk of later pathophysiological …

Although individual behaviors have not been proven to have a strong influence on the risk of
preterm birth, consistent evidence suggests that a constellation of favorable lifestyle factors …

The implicit paradigm that has governed the study and clinical management of preterm
labour is that term and preterm parturition are the same processes, except for the gestational …

The “fetal” or “early” origins of adult disease hypothesis was originally put forward by David
Barker and colleagues and stated that environmental factors, particularly nutrition, act in …

The authors review research on risk factors for eating disorders, restricting their focus to
studies in which clear precedence of the hypothesized risk factor over onset of the disorder …

In the last decades, the developmental origins of health and disease (DOHaD) have
emerged as a vigorous field combining experimental, clinical, epidemiological and public …

Many studies have provided evidence for the hypothesis that size at birth is related to the
risk of developing disease in later life. In particular, links are well established between …

Recent evidence demonstrates important maternal effects on an offspring's risk of
developing metabolic disease. These effects extend across the full range of maternal …

The concept of a Tetal origins of adult disease'(FOAD) or'fetal programming'was developed
by Barker and colleagues to describe the relationship between birth size and subsequent …

Although the large data sets combining birth and placental weights, maternal and postnatal
nutrition, and health records are sparse for food animals, many controlled studies have …