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Developmental biology: Support mothers to secure future public health

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  • David Barker

    (David Barker died on 27 August 2013, after writing the first draft of this Comment (see Nature 502, 304; 2013). Before his death, he was professor of clinical epidemiology at the Medical Research Council (MRC) Lifecourse Epidemiology Unit, University of Southampton, UK; professor of cardiovascular medicine at the Heart Research Center, Oregon Health and Science University in Portland; and visiting professor at the Center for the Study of Human Health, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia.
    2013). Before his death, he was professor of clinical epidemiology at the Medical Research Council (MRC) Lifecourse Epidemiology Unit, University of Southampton, UK)

  • Mary Barker

    (Mary Barker is senior lecturer in psychology at the MRC Lifecourse Epidemiology Unit, University of Southampton, UK.)

  • Tom Fleming

    (Tom Fleming is professor of developmental biology at the Centre for Biological Sciences, University of Southampton, UK.)

  • Michelle Lampl

    (Michelle Lampl is director of the Center for the Study of Human Health and Professor of Anthropology at Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia.)

Abstract

Evidence that long-term health is shaped by the environment in early life calls for prenatal interventions to tackle chronic disease, argue David Barker and colleagues.

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  • David Barker & Mary Barker & Tom Fleming & Michelle Lampl, 2013. "Developmental biology: Support mothers to secure future public health," Nature, Nature, vol. 504(7479), pages 209-211, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:504:y:2013:i:7479:d:10.1038_504209a
    DOI: 10.1038/504209a
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