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Maternal investment, life-history strategy of the offspring and adult chronic disease risk in South Asian women in the UK

Background and objectives: Patterns of development predict cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk, and ethnic differences therein, but it remains unclear why apparently ‘adaptive plasticity’ in early life should generate health costs in later life. We hypothesized that offspring receiving low maternal in...

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Autores principales: Wells, Jonathan C.K., Yao, Pallas, Williams, Jane E, Gayner, Rebecca
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4826584/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26988862
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/emph/eow011