Diet and Nutrition

Fetal Origin Hypothesis Says Reducing Disease Risk Starts Before Birth

Published in Women's Health Weekly, August 9th, 2001

Modest improvements in fetal and infant growth would lead to substantial falls in disease rates in later life, an epidemiologist reported at the annual meeting of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology.

Prof. David Barker said that prevention of conditions such as coronary heart disease, stroke, non-insulin dependent diabetes, and high blood pressure might ultimately depend on changing the body composition and diets of young women and preventing imbalances between pre- and postnatal growth in children.

Barker, who is director of the U.K.'s Medical Research Council Environmental Epidemiology Unit at Southampton University, is an...

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Source: Women's Health Weekly (2001-08-09)

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