Annals ofMetabolic Syndrome

Volume: 2 - Number: 16 - September 15, 2006

Outstanding

The fetal origins hypothesis—10 years on

Intrauterine factors, adiposity, and hyperinsulinaemia

Fetal origins of adult disease: epidemiology and mechanisms

The midwife, the coincidence, and the hypothesis

Cardiovascular medicine

Is maternal transmission of coronary heart disease risk stronger than paternal transmission?

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

Community child health, public health, and epidemiology

Precocious pubarche is associated with SGA, prematurity, weight gain, and obesity

Weaning of infants

Birth weight and cognitive function at age 11 years: the Scottish Mental Survey 1932

Editorial

Prognosis in obesity

The fetal origins hypothesis—10 years on

Intrauterine factors, adiposity, and hyperinsulinaemia

The fetal origins of adult disease

It`s good to talk

The midwife, the coincidence, and the hypothesis

Leaders

Fetal origins of adult disease: epidemiology and mechanisms

Notes

Risk factors for death in infancy persist into older age groups in England and Wales

Papers

Early life risk factors for obesity in childhood: cohort study

Longitudinal study of birth weight and adult body mass index in predicting risk of coronary heart disease and stroke in women

Long term mortality after severe starvation during the siege of Leningrad: prospective cohort study

The thrifty phenotype hypothesis and hearing problems

Fetal growth and subsequent risk of breast cancer: results from long term follow up of Swedish cohort

Parental diabetes and birth weight of offspring: intergenerational cohort study

Birth weight of offspring and insulin resistance in late adulthood: cross sectional survey

Prenatal growth, subsequent marital status, and mortality: longitudinal study

Fetal and early life growth and body mass index from birth to early adulthood in 1958 British cohort: longitudinal study

Implications of childhood obesity for adult health: findings from thousand families cohort study

Prenatal growth and risk of occlusive and haemorrhagic stroke in Swedish men and women born 1915-29: historical cohort study

Influence of variation in birth weight within normal range and within sibships on IQ at age 7 years: cohort study

Early growth and coronary heart disease in later life: longitudinal study

Birth weight and childhood onset type 1 diabetes: population based cohort study

Prenatal growth and subsequent marital status: longitudinal study

Duration of breast feeding and arterial distensibility in early adult life: population based study

Birth weight and cognitive function in the British 1946 birth cohort: longitudinal population based study