He-Feng Huang • Jian-Zhong Sheng
Editors

2014

Prenatal and early postnatal events increase the risk of some diseases in later life including diabetes, coronary heart disease and hypertension etc. In 1934, a landmark paper, published in the Lancet , found that death rates from all causes in the UK and Sweden decreased with each successive year-of-birth cohort between 1751 and 1930 [1]. The authors concluded that the health of child is determined by the environmental conditions existing during early life (0–15 years), and, the health of the adult is largely determined by the physical constitution of child [1].