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Paternal Body Mass Index (BMI) Is Associated with Offspring Intrauterine Growth in a Gender Dependent Manner

BACKGROUND: Environmental alternations leading to fetal programming of cardiovascular diseases in later life have been attributed to maternal factors. However, animal studies showed that paternal obesity may program cardio-metabolic diseases in the offspring. In the current study we tested the hypot...

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Autores principales: Chen, You-Peng, Xiao, Xiao-Min, Li, Jian, Reichetzeder, Christoph, Wang, Zi-Neng, Hocher, Berthold
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3343080/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22570703
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0036329