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Animal Studies
Nutritional intake during pregnancy impacts fetal and placental vessel growth
December 16th, 2004
Nutritional intake during pregnancy impacts fetal and placental vessel growth. According to recent research published in the journal Domestic Animal Endocrinology, "remarkable diversity of size and health of offspring exists after normal pregnancies. When pregnancies are complicated by an extrinsic variable such as inappropriate maternal nutrition, birth weight and health of the neonate are substantially affected. The placenta is the organ through which respiratory gases, nutrients, and wastes are exchanged between the maternal and fetal systems." "Thus, transplacental exchange provides for all the metabolic demands of fetal growth....
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2004-12-16)
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