Fetal Origins of Cardiovascular and Lung Disease Book

	Introduction
	Preface
	Contributors
1	Introduction
2	Birth Weight, Blood Pressure, and Hypertension: Epidemiological Studies
3	Mechanisms for In Utero Programming of Blood Pressure
4	Low Birth Weight and the Emerging Burden of Renal Disease in the United States
5	Intrauterine Nutrition: Its Importance During Critical Periods for Cardiovascular and Endocrine Development
6	Physiological Development of the Cardiovascular System In Utero
7	Non-Insulin-Dependent Diabetes and Obesity
8	Metabolic Alterations After Early Growth Retardation
9	Growth, Metabolic, and Endocrine Adaptations to Fetal Undernutrition
10	The Role of Hormones in Intrauterine Development
11	The Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Adrenal and Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Gonadal Axes in Early Life: Problems and Perspectives
12	Reduced Fetal Growth and Pediatric Endocrinopathies
13	Maternal Nutrition and Fetal Development: Implications for Fetal Programming
14	Maternal and Placental Influences that Program the Fetus: Experimental Findings
15	Fetal Origins of Lung Disease
16	The Nutrition Transition and its Implications for the Fetal Origins Hypothesis
17	Effects of Maternal Nutrition and Metabolism on the Developing Endocrine Pancreas: Experimental Findings
	Author Index
	Subject Index