Early programming of later health and disease: factors acting during prenatal life might have lifelong consequences

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Johan G Eriksson. Diabetes. 2010 Oct.

. 2010 Oct;59(10):2349-50.

doi: 10.2337/db10-0878.

¹ Department of Epidemiology and Health Promotion, National Public Health Institute, Helsinki, Finland. johan.eriksson@helsinki.fi

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Exposure to the Chinese famine in early life and the risk of hyperglycemia and type 2 diabetes in adulthood.
Li Y, He Y, Qi L, Jaddoe VW, Feskens EJ, Yang X, Ma G, Hu FB. Li Y, et al. Diabetes. 2010 Oct;59(10):2400-6. doi: 10.2337/db10-0385. Epub 2010 Jul 9. Diabetes. 2010. PMID: 20622161 Free PMC article.

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