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Page: << Prev | 1 | 2 "Clinicians need to look at these studies and at some point make suggestions about what to do," Alexander said.
Both animal and human results indicate that "not only the time during gestation but also the first few months of life are very critical in programming health," she said, adding that, "a lot of this research has not yet been translated into actual applications."
"At what point they are going to be translated, I don't know," Alexander said. "But it is something that should be of consideration in future health care."
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Last updated 9/3/2008
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SOURCES: Yoav Ben-Shlomo, M.D., professor, clinical epidemiology, University of Bristol, England; Barbara T. Alexander, Ph.D., associate professor, physiology, University of Mississippi, Jackson; Sept. 3, 2008, Hypertension
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