New insights into ending chronic disease.
ENDING CHRONIC DISEASE
- Coronary Heart
Disease - High Blood
Pressure - Stroke
- Type 2 Diabetes
& Obesity - Osteoporosis
- Aging
- Breast &
Ovary Cancer
David Barker, M.D., Ph.D., FRS is a Physician and Professor of Clinical Epidemiology at the University of Southampton, UK and Professor in the Department of Medicine at the Oregon Health and Science University, US. Fifteen years ago, he showed for the first time that people who had low birth weight are at greater risk of developing coronary heart disease. In 1995, the British Medical Journal named this the “Barker Hypothesis.” It is now widely accepted. In 2003 he joined the faculty at the Heart Research Center, OHSU, to study how nutrition and growth before birth and during early childhood alter the development of the heart.
Dr. Barker’s work is relevant to both Western countries and the Third World. In the Western world, many babies remain poorly nourished because their mothers eat diets that are unbalances in macronutrients and deficient in micronutrients, or because their mothers are excessively thin or overweight. In the Third World, many girls and young women are chronically malnourished.
