Born from pre-eclamptic pregnancies predisposes infants to altered cortisol metabolism in the first postnatal year
Pre-eclampsia leads to disturbed fetal organ development, including metabolic syndrome, attributed to altered pituitary-adrenal feedback loop. We measured cortisol metabolites in infants born from pre-eclamptic and normotensive women and hypothesised that glucocorticoid exposure would be exaggerated...
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BioScientifica
2015
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| Online Access: | https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/44332/ |