“Research highlights” is a weekly round-up of research papers appearing in the print BMJ. We start off with this week’s research questions, before providing more detail on some individual research papers and accompanying articles. […]
Tag: heart disease
Richard Smith: How important are the “early origins of health?”
How important is what happens to you in fetal and neonatal life in determining whether you develop heart disease later in life? I found myself thinking about that question a great deal back in the early 90s when the BMJ published many studies by David Barker, who in 1986 published the “Barker hypothesis” that fetal […]