Several epidemiologic studies have linked size at birth to health in adult life. One school of thought centers on the part that periconceptual or intrauterine events play in this relationship. The idea is that an event, or several events, during critical periods of development can program, or permanently alter, fetal physiology resulting in altered size at birth and subsequent adult disease, including that of the cardiovascular system. Maternal diet or body composition at the time of conception can influence placental development and subsequent transfer of nutrients and substrates to the fetus. Alterations to the maternal diet or body composition throughout gestation are then seen as challenges that are superimposed on this backdrop of periconceptual events. One task is to find an animal model that replicates the major features of the epidemiologic data:for adult cardiovascular disease this would be alteredfetal size and the development of postniatal hypertension. In addition, a critical issue is to investigate the mechanisms underlying this Fetal Origins of Adult Disease hypothesis. The multiple mechanisms that constitutefetal cardiovascular responses to hypoxia in lategestation at neuronal, endocrine, and local tissue levels have been studied extensively, and there is evidence from several diferent experimental paradigms that these control mechanisms can be progranmmed by intrauterine challenges. This review synthesizes the current knowledge in this area and considers how the programming of cardiovascular control relates to fetal growth.
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