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JOURNAL OF DEVELOPMENTAL ORIGINS OF HEALTH AND DISEASE
Volume 6, Issue 5, Pages 434-437Publisher
CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1017/S2040174415001129
Keywords
Barker; fetus; human; physiology
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- British Heart Foundation
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Professor David Barker, CBE, FRS, made an enormous contribution to biomedical research, which helped to change its direction and assisted translation to clinical medicine in the area of non-communicable disease (NCD). In this paper, I briefly note some of the studies, which led to his work, and describe how the underlying mechanisms came to be investigated by fetal physiologists. This is a unique aspect of the change in scientific emphasis, from a gene-centric and adult lifestyle view of NCD to a more holistic perspective, which placed emphasis on the importance of development that took place in the late 20th century. Early this century, the DOHaD Society was formed: I discuss some aspects of the formation of the Society and note the important role it is now playing in addressing the need to find early-life interventions to reduce NCD. This forms part of the unique legacy that David Barker has left to science and medicine.
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