Endocrine Abstracts

Epidemiological studies have suggested that in man low birth weight followed by rapid catch-up growth dramatically increase the risk of adulthood diabetes and metabolic syndrome. This experiment investigated the effect of a high fat, high cholesterol post-weaning diet on blood glucose levels of low (L) and normal (N) birth weight pigs.Low (L: <10thpercentile; n=6) and normal (N: 40th - 60th percentile; n=12) birth weig...