Mothers, Babies and Health in Later Life

By D.J.P. Barker and D. J. P. Barker BSc MD PhD FRCP FRCOG FFPHM

This book is written in support of a hypothesis which has implications for a number of medical specialists, notably cardiology, paediatrics, nutrition and obstetrics and epidemiology. This hypotheses is known as Baker Hypothesis. This Hypothesis is that the nourishment a baby receives from its mother, and its exposure to infection after birth, determine its susceptibility to disease in later life.This Hypothesis has enormous implications for currently accepted theories regarding diet, for example, the theory that eating large amounts of fat greatly increases the risk of heart disease.Outlines one of the most important epidemiological theories of recent years, which will have implications for government policy and which undermine accepted theories on diet and health.Author is one of the best known epidemiologists in the UK with an international reputation.
Fascinating read foe any medical person not just for epidemiologists and nutritionists.Important reading for all specialities.
New findings incorporatedand hypothesis developed in this brand new edition.Incorporates results from all around the world.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0443061653
• ISBN13: 9780443061653
• Release Date: May 1998
• Publisher: Churchill Livingstone
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 0.8" x 6.3"

Customer Reviews

A must read for all in the medical or scientific fields.

This book is not intended as a light reader into the relatively new field of fetal origins of adult disease. Those with a medical (nurses, MA's, doctors) or scientific (college students) background will find it to be a challenge to many of the traditional notions of how we stay healthy and become ill. This book goes into the scientific findings which have lead many researchers world wide to focus on the intrauterine environment as the basis for many adult diseases such as diabetes and heart disease. Dr. Barker is not only the author of the book, but is also the scientist that made most of the discoveries written about in the book. It was his research that has started off this incredible field of research. As a MD/PhD student I found it readable and very pertinent to medical care in the 21st century. Those involved in patient care, especially the care of children, owe it to their patients to learn more in this area.