Developmental biology: Support mothers to secure future public health

David Barker, Mary Barker (), Tom Fleming and Michelle Lampl
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David Barker: David Barker died on 27 August 2013, after writing the first draft of this Comment (see Nature 502, 304; 2013). Before his death, he was professor of clinical epidemiology at the Medical Research Council (MRC) Lifecourse Epidemiology Unit, University of Southampton, UK; professor of cardiovascular medicine at the Heart Research Center, Oregon Health and Science University in Portland; and visiting professor at the Center for the Study of Human Health, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia.
Mary Barker: Mary Barker is senior lecturer in psychology at the MRC Lifecourse Epidemiology Unit, University of Southampton, UK.
Tom Fleming: Tom Fleming is professor of developmental biology at the Centre for Biological Sciences, University of Southampton, UK.
Michelle Lampl: Michelle Lampl is director of the Center for the Study of Human Health and Professor of Anthropology at Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia.

Nature, 2013, vol. 504, issue 7479, 209-211

Abstract: Evidence that long-term health is shaped by the environment in early life calls for prenatal interventions to tackle chronic disease, argue David Barker and colleagues.

Date: 2013
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