- Title
- The Australian early origins of hypertension workshop: a celebration of the scientific contributions made by Emeritus Scientia Professor Eugenie R Lumbers AM and Professor Caroline McMillen
- Creator
- Morrison, Janna L.; Lumbers, Eugenie; Ozanne, Susan E.; Suter, Catherine M.
- Relation
- Journal of Developmental Origins of Health and Disease Vol. 4, Issue 5, p. 325-327
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S2040174413000391
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2013
- Description
- Editorial: The concept of fetal programming was introduced by Professor David Barker in the late 1980s based on his studies of birth weight and its correlation with death from cardiovascular diseases in adult life.1 Although this hypothesis was initially met with criticism, it has grown to be well accepted since the mid-1990s.2 However, the mechanisms underlying the link between a suboptimal intrauterine environment, the early postnatal period and health in adult life have been difficult to determine. Two outstanding fetal physiologists have made significant contributions to our understanding of the mechanistic links between alterations in the intrauterine environment and health in adult life: Professors Eugenie Lumbers and Caroline McMillen. Their remarkable contributions were celebrated recently at the Australian Early Origins of Hypertension Workshop, a satellite to the International Society for Hypertension meeting in September 2012. Forty national and international experts gathered to share their work, particularly as it relates to aspects of the contributions made by Caroline and Eugenie. Some of the studies discussed at the meeting are presented in this themed issue.
- Subject
- Australia; hypertension; cardiovascular diseases; scientific contributions
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1063892
- Identifier
- uon:17403
- Identifier
- ISSN:2040-1744
- Language
- eng
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