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Cardiovascular and diabetes mortality determined by nutrition during parents' and grandparents' slow growth period

Effects of nutrition could be carried down generations.

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  1. Kaati, G., Bygren, L.O. & Edvinsson, S. Cardiovascular and diabetes mortality determined by nutrition during parents' and grandparents' slow growth period. European Journal of Human Genetics, published online, doi:10.1038/sj.ejhg.5200859 (2002).

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Cardiovascular and diabetes mortality determined by nutrition during parents' and grandparents' slow growth period. Nature (2002). https://doi.org/10.1038/news021028-9

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