Thrifty energy metabolism in catch-up growth trajectories to insulin and leptin resistance
- Dulloo, Abdul G. Department of Medicine, Division of Physiology, University of Fribourg, Switzerland
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12.02.2008
Published in:
- Best Practice & Research Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism. - 2008, vol. 22, no. 1, p. 155-171
English
Catch-up growth early in life (after fetal, neonatal or infantile growth retardation) is a major risk factor for later obesity, type-2 diabetes and cardiovascular diseases. These risks are generally interpreted alongside teleological arguments that environmental exposures which hinder growth early in life lead to programming of ‘thrifty mechanisms’ that are adaptive during the period of... Show more…
- Faculty
- Faculté des sciences et de médecine
- Department
- Département de Médecine
- Language
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- English
- Classification
- Biology
- License
- License undefined
- Identifiers
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- RERO DOC 9280
- DOI 10.1016/j.beem.2007.08.001
- Persistent URL
- https://folia.unifr.ch/unifr/documents/300757