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



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Titolo: The childhood environment and adult disease [[electronic resource]] Visualizza cluster
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  Visualizza cluster
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
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Serie: Ciba Foundation symposium ; ; 156.