The sex-specific effects of famine on the association between placental size and later hypertension

People who had low birth weight are at increased risk of hypertension. This may reflect fetal programming by undernutrition. Placental size is also associated with hypertension. Maternal undernutrition during the Dutch famine reduced placental surface area. We examined whether maternal undernutritio...

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Published in:	Placenta (Eastbourne) Vol. 32; no. 9; pp. 694 - 698
Main Authors:	van Abeelen, A.F.M., de Rooij, S.R., Osmond, C., Painter, R.C., Veenendaal, M.V.E., Bossuyt, P.M.M., Elias, S.G., Grobbee, D.E., van der Schouw, Y.T., Barker, D.J.P., Roseboom, T.J.
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	Kidlington Elsevier Ltd 01.09.2011 Elsevier
Subjects:	Adult Biological and medical sciences Dutch famine Embryology: invertebrates and vertebrates. Teratology Female Fetal programming Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology Humans Hypertension Hypertension - etiology Infant, Low Birth Weight Infant, Newborn Internal Medicine Male Malnutrition - complications Netherlands Obstetrics and Gynecology Organ Size Placenta Placenta - pathology Pregnancy Prenatal Exposure Delayed Effects - physiopathology Retrospective Studies Sex Characteristics Sex differences Starvation - complications Starvation - physiopathology Netherlands Hypertension Sex differences Placenta Dutch famine Fetal programming Vertebrata Famine Mammalia Fetal membrane Size Sex Cardiovascular disease
ISSN:	0143-4004, 1532-3102, 1532-3102
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