Extensive experimental animal studies and epidemiological observations have shown that
environmental influences during early development affect the risk of later pathophysiological …

Obesity is a worldwide pandemic in adults as well as children and adds greatly to health
care costs through its association with type 2 diabetes, metabolic syndrome, cardiovascular …

Objective The aim of this article is to review why the first 1000 days of life are a vulnerable
period of human development and the long‐term effects of a nutrition experiment carried out …

Decades ago, discussion of an impending global pandemic of obesity was thought of as
heresy. But in the 1970s, diets began to shift towards increased reliance upon processed …

How do adverse childhood experiences get 'under the skin'and influence health outcomes
through the life-course? Research reviewed here suggests that adverse childhood …

BACKGROUND The social environment shapes human health, producing strong
relationships between social factors, disease risk, and survival. The strength of these links …

Type 2 diabetes is a global public health crisis that threatens the economies of all nations,
particularly develo** countries. Fueled by rapid urbanization, nutrition transition, and …

The global prevalence of obesity is increasing across most ages in both sexes. This is
contributing to the early emergence of type 2 diabetes and its related epidemic,. Having …

This sixth edition of A Dictionary of Epidemiology--the most updated since its inception--
reflects the profound substantive and methodological changes that have come to …

This book explores the socio-political implications of human heredity from the second half of
the nineteenth century to the present postgenomic moment. It addresses three main phases …