HSCI 216 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Bone Density, Cardiovascular Disease, Delayed Milestone
11 Sep 2017
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Development origins of health and disease - dohad. Prenatal growth severely affected by maternal smoking: ~200 gram difference in birth weight. Dose-response: the more you smoke, the smaller your baby will be. In terms of genetic influences, the size of babies tends to be associated more with maternal size than paternal size. Development origins of health and disease dohad. To describe the stages of post-natal growth. To describe how environment affects post-natal growth and when development is most vulnerable post-natally. To describe the thrifty phenotype hypothesis and how individuals van be mismatched to their environment after birth. To discuss how nutrition, environment and psychosocial stress can impact development post-natally. Lady who killed her 5 children (found not guilty) andrea yates. Post-partum depression (~15% of women) can lead to neglect, post-partum psychosis (1 per 1,000) may lead to infanticide. Ppd and ppp have been proposed to be evolved mechanisms for maternal investment avoidance.
