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ey0016.13-12 | Growth and Nutrition | ESPEYB16

13.12. Exposure to improved nutrition from conception to age 2 years and adult cardiometabolic disease risk: a modelling study

ND Ford , JR Behrman , JF Hoddinott , JA Maluccio , R Martorell , M Ramirez-Zea , AD Stein

Lancet Glob Health 2018;6: e875–84. DOI: 10.1016/S2214-109X(18)30231-6• Perinatal chronic undernutrition plays a role in adult-onset cardiometabolic disease.• In this 40-year, longitudinal cohort in Guatemala, protein-energy nutritional supplementation during the first 2 years of life reduced the odds of diabetes but increased the risk of obesi...