This volume offers the most comprehensive coverage on fetal programming. Chapters are written by authors of international and national standing, leaders in the

Over the last decade, epidemiological studies have suggested that the risk of coronary heart disease, stroke mortality and hypertension is, in part, related to

There is a documented link between fetal nutrition and the development of disease risk in adult life. Including the early postnatal period, during which a newbo

Maternal nutritional status affects the offsprings health development significantly during early embryogenesis, pregnancy, birth and lactation, and subsequently