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Impact of perinatal insults in programming adult pathologies in the offspring. Exposure of the fetus/offspring to different insults during critical periods of development may lead to adaptations that prove to be detrimental and associated with adult defects in several organ systems. IUGR, intrauterine growth restriction.
