Ecological pressures and milk metabolic hormones of ethnic Tibetans living at different altitudes

Background: Very little is known about how milk hormones, shown to influence growth during infancy, may contribute to patterns of altered growth in high altitude living infants. Aim: This study investigated the association between maternal BMI, the metabolic hormones adiponectin and leptin in human...

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Main Authors: Elizabeth A. Quinn, Geoff Childs
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Taylor & Francis Group 2017-01-01
Series:Annals of Human Biology
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Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.3109/03014460.2016.1153144