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Primordial Prevention of Non Communicable Disease

  • Provides preventive strategies to attenuate the development of non- communicable diseases (NCDs)
  • Comprehensive modifications for healthy lifestyle and gene-environment interactions for primordial prevention of NCDs are discussed
  • Provides an overview on the complex interactions of epigenetic related to the origins of NCDs

Part of the book series: Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology (AEMB, volume 1121)

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

About this book

This volume provides a comprehensive overview on developmental origins of health and disease regarding various factors related to the origins of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) from early life. It offers a summary of the impacts of various factors such as epigenetics; gene-environment interaction; ethnic predisposition to NCDs and their risk factors; prenatal factors; fetal programming; maternal weight status and weight gain during pregnancy; type of feeding during infancy; growth pattern during childhood; obesity; stunting; socioeconomic status; dietary and physical activity habits; as well as environmental factors including air pollution and global climate change on the development and progress of NCDs.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Professor of Pediatrics, Child Growth and Development Research Center, Research Institute for Primordial Prevention of Non Communicable Disease, USERN Office, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran

    Roya Kelishadi

About the editor

Roya Kelishadi is a Professor of Pediatrics at the Child Growth and Development Research Center within the Research Institute for Primordial Prevention of Non Communicable Disease. Isfahan University of Medical Sciences.

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eBook USD 129.00
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Hardcover Book USD 169.99
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