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Intergenerational health responses to adverse and enriched environments
Umeå University, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Community Medicine and Rehabilitation. (Department of Bioscience and Nutrition, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden)
2013 (English)In: Annual review of public health (Print), ISSN 0163-7525, E-ISSN 1545-2093, Vol. 34, p. 49-60Article in journal (Refereed) Published
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Health consequences of relative or absolute poverty constitute a definitive area of study in social medicine. As demonstrated in the extreme example of the Dutch Hunger Winter from 1944 to 1945, prenatal hunger can lead to adult schizophrenia and depression. A Norwegian study showed how childhood poverty resulted in a heightened risk of myocardial infarction in adulthood. In England, a study of extended impaired prenatal nutrition indicated three different types of increased cardiovascular risk at older ages. Current animal and human studies link both adverse and enriched environmental exposures to intergenerational transmission. We do not fully understand the molecular mechanisms for it; however, studies that follow up epigenetic marks within a generation combined with exploration of gametic epigenetic inheritance may help explain the prevalence of certain conditions such as cardiovascular disease, schizophrenia, and alcoholism, which have complex etiologies. Insights from these studies will be of great public health importance.

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2013. Vol. 34, p. 49-60
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URN: urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-79392DOI: 10.1146/annurev-publhealth-031912-114419ISI: 000321892700006PubMedID: 23297658Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-84875472033OAI: oai:DiVA.org:umu-79392DiVA, id: diva2:641355
Available from: 2013-08-16 Created: 2013-08-16 Last updated: 2023-03-23Bibliographically approved

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