The childhood environment and adult disease [[electronic resource]]

• Pubblicazione: Chichester ; ; New York, : Wiley, 1991
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (254 p.)
• Disciplina: 616.071; 618.92; 618.9298
• Soggetto topico: Environmentally induced diseases in children - Complications; Diseases - Causes and theories of causation; Mental illness - Etiology; Child development
• Altri autori: BockGregory WhelanJulie
• Note generali: Based on the Symposium on the Childhood Environment and Adult Disease, held at the Ciba Foundation, London, 16-17 May 1990.; Editors: Gregory R. Bock (organizer) and Julie Whelan.; "A Wiley-Interscience publication."
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: THE CHILDHOOD ENVIRONMENT AND ADULT DISEASE; Contents; Introduction; The intrauterine environment and adult cardiovascular disease; Fetal response to intrauterine stress; Programming by early nutrition in man; Programming of cholesterol metabolismbreast or formula feeding; Interactions between early nutrition and the immune system; Childhood infection and adult disease; Critical periods in brain development; Sensitive and vulnerable periods in the development of the visual system; Fetal brain development and later schizophrenia; Early stress and adult emotional reactivity in rhesus monkeys ; Childhood experiences and adult psychosocial functioningProlegomena to a model of continuity and change in behavioural development; General discussion; Index of contributors; Subject index
• Sommario/riassunto: Modern technology has made possible epidemiological studies that relate aspects of neonatal health to disease in adult life. This symposium is the first to draw together information from this new research area. Explores links between early growth and the risk of high blood pressure, stroke and coronary heart disease in adult life; poor growth of babies and inadequate growth and nutrition of mothers; and levels of blood cholesterol and clotting factors. Other chapters consider the connections between early nutrition and adult immunocompetence and risk of allergic diseases; critical periods in t
• Titolo autorizzato: The childhood environment and adult disease
• ISBN: 1-282-34769-1; 9786612347696; 0-470-51404-3; 0-470-51405-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910831062103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Ciba Foundation symposium ; ; 156.