Review Article

Cardiac Development and Transcription Factors: Insulin Signalling, Insulin Resistance, and Intrauterine Nutritional Programming of Cardiovascular Disease

Figure 1

Nutritional programming of cardiovascular disease. Both intrauterine undernutrition (a) and overnutrition (b) alter offspring growth and induce structural and functional cardiac modifications that increase the risk for cardiovascular disease.
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