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Title
Early Life Nutrition and Future Health
Subject
life-course epidemiology
Public health
nutrition
Description
Inequity starts before birth and is programmed in part by nutritional exposures. If these exposures occur around the time of conception, during pregnancy, and/or in infancy or childhood (all critical periods of development) they may alter a child’s health trajectory and impact risk for impaired cognition and learning, and cardiometabolic, immune, and neuropsychiatric diseases and disorders. This Special Issue on “Early Life Nutrition and Future Health” has the following aims: 1) understand the origins of offspring health inequities from an early nutritional perspective; 2) uncover new insights into the environmental, biological, and social mechanisms that underpin these health outcomes in offspring; and 3) present novel targets and approaches to optimise health trajectories and prevent chronic diseases and disorders in later life and across generations. The research projects included herein highlight novel mechanistic, epidemiologic, and intervention studies that target key windows where nutrition has the greatest influence on future health (preconception, prenatal, and postnatal periods) and that explore vulnerable populations and animal models of early life nutritional programming.
Creator
Connor, Kristin
Source
https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/45628
Publisher
MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Date
2020
Contributor
Shiefti Dyah
Rights
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
Format
PDF
Language
English
Type
Textbooks
Identifier
10.3390/books978-3-03928-251-7
ISBN 9783039282500, 9783039282517
Coverage
Public Health