Fetal origins of obesity.

By E. Oken, M. Gillman. Obesity Research, 2003

957 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Obstetrics and Gynecology, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

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In Obstetrics and Gynecology

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2. E. Sweet

Citations in the corpus

• The impact of maternal obesity on maternal and fetal health. (2008, background): “Birth weight has also been shown to be directly correlated with body mass index (BMI) later in life.(6) One mechanism thought to underlie these relationships is in utero fetal programming by nutritional stimuli.”
• Epigenetics and the embodiment of race: Developmental origins of US racial disparities in cardiovascular health (2009, background): “Maternal fetal growth rate is among the strongest predictors of offspring fetal growth rate (Morton, 2006; Ramakrishnan et al., 1999), and among survivors of the Dutch Famine winter during WWII, the grandoffspring of pregnant women who experienced the famine had reduced fetal growth (Lumey, 1992).”