Fully revised new edition highlighting the scientific and clinical advances in the field of developmental origins of health and disease. Explores new understanding of mechanisms such as epigenetics and the role of environmental influences on the fetus. Interventions throughout the lifespan and implications for public health are also covered.
"Clinicians working in maternal-fetal medicine and a range of internal medicine specialties. Basic scientists working in the fields of physiology, nutrition, endocrinology and metabolism, developmental biology, molecular biology and epigenetics, human biology and anthropology, evolutionary developmental biology. Nutritionists, epidemiologists, social scientists, economists, public health specialists and policy makers"--
