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01-07-2004 | Author’s Reply
Reply to Comment on: Hales CN, Ozanne SE (2003) For Debate: Fetal and early postnatal growth restriction lead to diabetes, the metabolic syndrome and renal failure
Authors:
C. N. Hales, S. E. Ozanne
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Diabetologia
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Issue 7/2004
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To the Editor: We are grateful to Plagemann et al. for their constructive comments on wider aspects of the field we discussed in our article. The title and main substance of our article was a factual summary of the results of our experiments on rats, involving feeding rat dams a low-protein diet during pregnancy and lactation. This manipulation results in fetal and early postnatal growth restriction. It was not our intention to review all of the literature in this field, but rather, in an invited lecture, to review the progress of our own research. We apologise if we caused unrest by the focus of our article. We did not state that low birthweight is a cause of adult obesity, although there are data to suggest that this is true in some circumstances. …
