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2D-4 Infant growth and hostility in adult life

scholarly article by K. Räikkönen et al published September 2007 in Early Human Development

822: The expression of the omega-3 fatty acid receptor, GPR120, is more sensitive to inflammatory cytokines and maternal obesity in male infants than in females

scientific article published in January 2012

A possible link between the pubertal growth of girls and breast cancer in their daughters

scientific article published in March 2008

A possible link between the pubertal growth of girls and ovarian cancer in their daughters

scientific article published in November 2008

A possible link between the pubertal growth of girls and prostate cancer in their sons

scientific article published on 27 January 2012

Adult consequences of fetal growth restriction

scientific article published in June 2006

Adult metabolic syndrome and impaired glucose tolerance are associated with different patterns of BMI gain during infancy: Data from the New Delhi Birth Cohort.

scientific article

Adult mortality at age 57 after prenatal exposure to the Dutch famine

scientific article published on January 2005

Adult survival after prenatal exposure to the Dutch famine 1944--45.

scientific article published on July 2001

Altered regional blood flow in the fetus: the origins of cardiovascular disease?

scientific article published in December 2004

Anthropometric indicators of body composition in young adults: relation to size at birth and serial measurements of body mass index in childhood in the New Delhi birth cohort

scientific article published in August 2005

Association of schizophrenia with low maternal body mass index, small size at birth, and thinness during childhood

scientific article

Associations between birth weight and antihypertensive medication in black and white medicaid recipients

scientific article published in January 2002

Associations between childhood living circumstances and schizophrenia: a population-based cohort study.

scientific article published on November 2001

Associations of body size at birth with late-life cortisol concentrations and glucose tolerance are modified by haplotypes of the glucocorticoid receptor gene

scientific article published on 8 August 2006

Atopy, lung function, and obstructive airways disease after prenatal exposure to famine.

scientific article published on July 2000

Beyond birthweight: the maternal and placental origins of chronic disease

scientific article published on 01 December 2010

Birth size and childhood growth as determinants of physical functioning in older age: the Helsinki Birth Cohort Study

scientific article published on 9 November 2011

Birth size, adult body composition and muscle strength in later life

scientific article published on 13 March 2007

Birth weight and hypertension

scientific article published on 31 July 2006

Birth weight, infant weight gain, and cause-specific mortality: the Hertfordshire Cohort Study

scientific article published in June 2005

Birth weight: a predictive medicine consideration for the disparities in CKD.

scientific article published in August 2009

Birth-weight and resting metabolic rate in adulthood - sex-specific differences

scientific article published on 28 February 2011

Birthsize, gestational age and adrenal function in adult life: studies of dexamethasone suppression and ACTH1-24 stimulation

scientific article

Blood pressure in adults after prenatal exposure to famine

scientific article published in March 1999

Body size at birth and socio-economic status in childhood: implications for Cloninger's psychobiological model of temperament at age 60.

scientific article

Body size at birth is associated with food and nutrient intake in adulthood

scientific article

Body size at birth predicts hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis response to psychosocial stress at age 60 to 70 years

scientific article published on 11 September 2007

Boys live dangerously in the womb

scientific article published on May 2010

Cardiovascular Disease in Survivors of the Dutch Famine

scientific article published in 2005

Cardiovascular health of Finnish war evacuees 60 years later

scientific article published in January 2009

Cardiovascular morbidity and mortality in Finnish men and women separated temporarily from their parents in childhood--a life course study

scientific article

Cardiovascular reactivity to psychological stressors in late adulthood is predicted by gestational age at birth

scientific article published on 01 March 2007

Changes in placental size during Ramadan

scientific article published on 2 June 2010

Childhood growth and cardiovascular reactivity to psychological stressors in late adulthood

scientific article published on 21 February 2008

Childhood growth and future risk of the metabolic syndrome in normal-weight men and women

scientific article

Childhood respiratory infection and adult chronic bronchitis in England and Wales

Childhood separation experience predicts HPA axis hormonal responses in late adulthood: a natural experiment of World War II.

scientific article published on 5 December 2009

Childhood socioeconomic status modifies the association between intellectual abilities at age 20 and mortality in later life.

scientific article

Cognitive ability and decline after early life stress exposure

scientific article published on 18 January 2013

Cohort Profile: the 1969-73 Vellore birth cohort study in South India

scientific article published on 06 August 2008

Cohort profile: The Southampton Women's Survey

scientific article

Cohort profile: the Hertfordshire cohort study.

scientific article

Commentary: The meaning of thrift

scientific article published in October 2013

Concluding remarks. The Window of Opportunity: Pre-Pregnancy to 24 Months of Age.

scientific article published in January 2008

Constraints on food choices of women in the UK with lower educational attainment

scientific article published on 26 February 2008

Coronary heart disease after prenatal exposure to the Dutch famine, 1944-45

scientific article published in December 2000

Coronary heart disease: a disorder of growth

scientific article published on 01 November 2002

Depressive symptoms in adulthood and intrauterine exposure to pre-eclampsia: the Helsinki Birth Cohort Study

scientific article published on 18 June 2010

Developmental antecedents of cardiovascular disease: a historical perspective

scientific article

Developmental biology: Support mothers to secure future public health

scientific article published on December 2013

Developmental origins of physical fitness: the Helsinki Birth Cohort Study

scientific article

Developmental plasticity and human health

scientific article published in July 2004

Duration of Breast-feeding and Adiposity in Adult Life

Early adiposity rebound in childhood and risk of Type 2 diabetes in adult life

article by J. G. Eriksson et al published 8 January 2003 in Diabetologia

Early growth and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease in adulthood-the NAFLD liver fat score and equation applied on the Helsinki Birth Cohort Study

scientific article published on 14 June 2013

Early life origins cognitive decline: findings in elderly men in the Helsinki Birth Cohort Study

scientific article

Early life stress and blood pressure levels in late adulthood

scientific article published on 16 February 2012

Early life stress and physical and psychosocial functioning in late adulthood

scientific article published on 5 July 2013

Effects of Prenatal Exposure to the Dutch Famine on Adult Disease in Later Life: An Overview

scientific article published in October 2001

Effects of famine on placental size and efficiency

scientific article published on 24 March 2011

Effects of prenatal exposure to the Dutch famine on adult disease in later life: an overview.

scientific article published in December 2001

Epidemiology and clinical practice

scientific article published in April 1980

Ethnic differences in the accumulation of fat and lean mass in late gestation

scientific article published on 7 May 2012

Exercise protects against glucose intolerance in individuals with a small body size at birth

scientific article

Fetal and infant growth and impaired glucose tolerance: Authors' reply.

scientific article published in December 1991

Fetal and placental size and risk of hypertension in adult life: Authors' reply.

scientific article published in September 1990

Fetal origins of cardiovascular disease

scientific article published on 01 January 1999

Fetal programming and adult health

scientific article

Fetal programming of coronary heart disease

scientific article

Fingerprints, fetal growth, and adult blood pressure: Authors' reply.

scientific article published in October 1993

Foetal and childhood growth and asthma in adult life

scientific article published on 26 April 2013

Genome-wide association identifies nine common variants associated with fasting proinsulin levels and provides new insights into the pathophysiology of type 2 diabetes

scientific article

Glucose tolerance at age 58 and the decline of glucose tolerance in comparison with age 50 in people prenatally exposed to the Dutch famine.

scientific article published on 10 February 2006

Glucose tolerance in adults after prenatal exposure to famine

scientific article published in The Lancet

Glucose tolerance, insulin resistance and insulin secretion in young south Indian adults: Relationships to parental size, neonatal size and childhood body mass index

scientific article

Growth and chronic disease: findings in the Helsinki Birth Cohort

scientific article published in September 2009

Growth and living conditions in childhood and hypertension in adult life: a longitudinal study

scientific article published in October 2002

Growth before 2 years of age and serum lipids 60 years later: the Helsinki Birth Cohort study

scientific article published on 11 February 2008

Growth from birth to adulthood and peak bone mass and density data from the New Delhi Birth Cohort

scientific article

Growth in childhood predicts hip fracture risk in later life

scientific article published on 09 April 2010

Growth in infancy and childhood and hospitalization for personality disorders in adulthood: the Helsinki Birth Cohort Study

scientific article published in October 2011

Growth of girls who later develop coronary heart disease

scientific article published on January 2004

Growth trajectories and intellectual abilities in young adulthood: The Helsinki Birth Cohort study

scientific article published on 15 June 2009

How boys grow determines how long they live

scientific article published on 29 March 2011

Human growth and cardiovascular disease

scientific article published on January 2008

Human growth and chronic disease: A memorial to Jim Tanner

scientific article published on October 4, 2012

Hypertensive disorders in pregnancy and cognitive decline in the offspring up to old age

scientific article

Hypertensive disorders in pregnancy and intellectual abilities in the offspring in young adulthood: the Helsinki Birth Cohort Study

scientific article published on 15 April 2011

Hypertensive disorders in pregnancy and risk of severe mental disorders in the offspring in adulthood: the Helsinki Birth Cohort Study

scientific article published on 12 December 2011

Impact of educational attainment on the quality of young women's diets

scientific article published in August 2004

Improving women's diet quality preconceptionally and during gestation: effects on birth weight and prevalence of low birth weight--a randomized controlled efficacy trial in India (Mumbai Maternal Nutrition Project).

scientific article

In preeclampsia, the placenta grows slowly along its minor axis

scientific article published in January 2010

Increased reproductive success of women after prenatal undernutrition

scientific article published on 25 July 2008

Inequalities in health in Britain: specific explanations in three Lancashire towns:: Authors' reply

Infant growth and hostility in adult life

scientific article published on 31 March 2008

Inter-generational social mobility following early life stress

scientific article

Interactions Between Peroxisome Proliferator-Activated Receptor Gene Polymorphism and Birth Length Influence Risk for Type 2 Diabetes

scientific article published on 25 July 2003

Interactions between peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor-gamma 2 gene polymorphisms and size at birth on blood pressure and the use of antihypertensive medication

scientific article published in July 2004

Intergenerational effects of in utero exposure to Ramadan in Tunisia

scientific article published on 21 February 2013

Intrauterine growth and serum cholesterol: Authors' reply

scientific article published in February 1994

Introduction

Late life metabolic syndrome, early growth, and common polymorphism in the growth hormone and placental lactogen gene cluster

scientific article published in November 2004

Late preterm birth, post-term birth, and abnormal fetal growth as risk factors for severe mental disorders from early to late adulthood

scientific article published on 5 September 2014

Length of gestation and depressive symptoms at age 60 years

Long-term effects of placental growth on overweight and body composition

scientific article published on 18 April 2012

Low maternal body mass index, small size at birth and thinness during childhood are associated with schizophrenia: A population based cohort study

Markers of biological fitness as predictors of all-cause mortality

scientific article published on 4 September 2012

Maternal hypertensive disorders during pregnancy: adaptive functioning and psychiatric and psychological problems of the older offspring

scientific article published on 7 April 2014

Maternal hypertensive disorders in pregnancy and self-reported cognitive impairment of the offspring 70 years later: the Helsinki Birth Cohort Study

scientific article

Maternal nutrition during gestation and blood pressure in later life

scientific article published in January 2001

Mechanisms of disease: in utero programming in the pathogenesis of hypertension.

scientific article published on December 2006

Meeting report on the 3rd International Congress on Developmental Origins of Health and Disease (DOHaD).

scientific article published in May 2007

Microalbuminuria in adults after prenatal exposure to the Dutch famine

scientific article

Mother's body size and placental size predict coronary heart disease in men.

scientific article published on June 2011

Mother's lifetime nutrition and the size, shape and efficiency of the placenta.

scientific article published on 14 September 2011

Neonatal anthropometry: the thin-fat Indian baby. The Pune Maternal Nutrition Study

scientific article published on 01 February 2003

Neonatal fatty acid profiles are correlated with infant growth measures at 6 months.

scientific article

O27. Hypertensive disorders in pregnancy and risk of severe mental disorders in the offspring in adulthood: The Helsinki Birth Cohort study

scientific article published in July 2011

Obesity and early life

scientific article published on March 2007

Obesity at the age of 50 y in men and women exposed to famine prenatally

scientific article published in November 1999

P42. Hypertensive disorders in pregnancy and risk of severe mental disorders in the offspring in adulthood: The Helsinki Birth Cohort Study

scientific article published in July 2011

Pathways of Infant and Childhood Growth That Lead to Type 2 Diabetes

scientific article published on 24 October 2003

Patterns of growth among children who later develop type 2 diabetes or its risk factors

scientific article published on 03 October 2006

Perceived health of adults after prenatal exposure to the Dutch famine

scientific article published on October 2003

Placental programming of blood pressure in Indian children.

scientific article

Placental programming of chronic diseases, cancer and lifespan: a review.

scientific article published on 02 August 2013

Plasma fibrinogen and factor VII concentrations in adults after prenatal exposure to famine

scientific article published in October 2000

Pre-eclampsia is associated with increased risk of stroke in the adult offspring: the Helsinki birth cohort study

scientific article published on 5 March 2009

Predicting adult metabolic syndrome from childhood body mass index: follow-up of the New Delhi birth cohort.

scientific article

Prenatal and childhood growth and leisure time physical activity in adult life

scientific article published in December 2010

Prenatal and childhood growth, and hospitalization for alcohol use disorders in adulthood: the Helsinki birth cohort study

scientific article

Prenatal growth, postnatal growth and trait anxiety in late adulthood - the Helsinki Birth Cohort Study

scientific article published on 30 June 2009

Prenatal influences on stroke mortality in England and Wales

scientific article published on 19 June 2003

Prenatal origins of hospitalization for personality disorders: the Helsinki birth cohort study

scientific article published on 20 May 2010

Prenatal programming of renal salt wasting resets postnatal salt appetite, which drives food intake in the rat.

scientific article published in March 2012

Preterm birth--a risk factor for type 2 diabetes? The Helsinki birth cohort study

scientific article published on 7 September 2010

Relation of serial changes in childhood body-mass index to impaired glucose tolerance in young adulthood

scientific article

Relationship between polycystic ovaries, body mass index and insulin resistance

scientific article published on 01 January 2003

Resource allocation in utero and health in later life

scientific article published on 17 July 2012

Risk of severe mental disorders in adults separated temporarily from their parents in childhood: the Helsinki birth cohort study

scientific article

Role of childhood growth on the risk of metabolic syndrome in obese men and women

scientific article published on 25 February 2009

Role of socioeconomic indicators on development of obesity from a life course perspective

scientific article published on 07 June 2009

Secular increase in placental weight in Saudi Arabia

scientific article published on 22 March 2011

Self-perpetuating effects of birth size on blood pressure levels in elderly people

scientific article published on 17 February 2003

Serum insulin-like growth factor (IGF)-I and IGF-binding protein-1 in elderly people: relationships with cardiovascular risk factors, body composition, size at birth, and childhood growth.

scientific article published in March 2003

Sex differences in birth size and intergenerational effects of intrauterine exposure to Ramadan in Saudi Arabia.

scientific article published on 31 May 2011

Sex differences in regional specialisation across the placental surface

scientific article published in June 2014

Sir Richard Doll Lecture. Developmental origins of chronic disease

scientific article published on 10 February 2012

Size at birth as a predictor of mortality in adulthood: a follow-up of 350 000 person-years

scientific article published on 11 March 2005

Size at birth, gestational age and cortisol secretion in adult life: foetal programming of both hyper- and hypocortisolism?

scientific article published in November 2002

Size at birth, the metabolic syndrome and 24-h salivary cortisol profile

scientific article

Small head circumference at birth and early age at adiposity rebound

scientific article published on 15 July 2013

Spontaneous hypothyroidism in adult women is predicted by small body size at birth and during childhood

scientific article published on 19 September 2006

Stroke is predicted by low visuospatial in relation to other intellectual abilities and coronary heart disease by low general intelligence

scientific article

Temporary separation from parents in early childhood and serious personality disorders in adult life

scientific article

The association between salt intake and adult systolic blood pressure is modified by birth weight

scientific article published on 10 November 2010

The association of the K121Q polymorphism of the plasma cell glycoprotein-1 gene with type 2 diabetes and hypertension depends on size at birth

scientific article

The breadth of the placental surface but not the length is associated with body size at birth

scientific article published on 29 May 2012

The developmental origins of adult disease

scientific article published on 01 January 2003

The developmental origins of chronic adult disease.

scientific article

The developmental origins of chronic rheumatic heart disease

scientific article published in August 2013

The developmental origins of insulin resistance

scientific article

The early environment, developmental plasticity and aging

article by Avan Aihie Sayer & David Barker published August 2002 in Reviews in Clinical Gerontology

The early origins of chronic heart failure: impaired placental growth and initiation of insulin resistance in childhood

scientific article

The effects of the ACE gene insertion/deletion polymorphism on glucose tolerance and insulin secretion in elderly people are modified by birth weight

scientific article published in November 2004

The effects of the Pro12Ala polymorphism of the peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor-gamma2 gene on insulin sensitivity and insulin metabolism interact with size at birth

scientific article published in July 2002

The infant growth of boys who later develop coronary heart disease

scientific article published in January 2004

The intrauterine origins of Hodgkin's lymphoma

scientific article published on 9 February 2013

The lifespan of men and the shape of their placental surface at birth

scientific article

The obstetric origins of health for a lifetime

scientific article published on September 2013

The placental origins of sudden cardiac death

scientific article published on 19 September 2012

The prenatal origins of lung cancer. I. The fetus

scientific article published in July 2010

The prenatal origins of lung cancer. II. The placenta

scientific article published in July 2010

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

scientific article published on 13 July 2011

The shape of the placental surface at birth and colorectal cancer in later life

scientific article published on 10 June 2013

The surface area of the placenta and hypertension in the offspring in later life

scientific article published on January 2010

The velocity of fetal growth is associated with the breadth of the placental surface, but not with the length

scientific article published on 9 May 2013

Trajectories of growth among children who have coronary events as adults

scientific article

Trajectories of physical growth and personality dimensions of the Five-Factor Model

scientific article published on 27 May 2013

Type 2 (non-insulin-dependent) diabetes mellitus: the thrifty phenotype hypothesis. 1992.

scientific article published in October 2013

Type of milk feeding in infancy and health behaviours in adult life: findings from the Hertfordshire Cohort Study

scientific article published on 5 July 2012

Vegetable consumption and acute appendicitis: Authors' reply

Why women of lower educational attainment struggle to make healthier food choices: The importance of psychological and social factors

article by Wendy Lawrence et al published November 2009 in Psychology & Health