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Postgraduate Course: Environmental determinants of cardiometabolic disorders - birth weight & prenatal programming/rural to urban transition (GMED11017)

Course Outline
SchoolDeanery of Clinical Sciences CollegeCollege of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine
Credit level (Normal year taken)SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) AvailabilityAvailable to all students
SCQF Credits10 ECTS Credits5
SummaryThis course will provide an outline of the multiple determinants (genetic and environmental) of cardiometabolic disease, reflecting on the rapidly expanding field of developmental origins of health and disease. The Course will review evidence for the influence of nutritional experiences in early life and their putative programming effects on adult cardiometabolic phenotype (the Barker hypothesis). It will describe potential mechanisms in the programming of hypertension and hyperglycaemia, and review the role of prenatal overexposure to glucocorticoids in fetal programming of adult disease

Course description Not entered
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations Other requirements None
Additional Costs Students will be responsible for their computer equipment and internet access.
Information for Visiting Students
Pre-requisitesNone
Course Delivery Information
Not being delivered
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course the candidate should be able to:
* Describe the concept of >fetal programming<
* Describe how early life (prenatal/perinatal) events predispose to a common adult cardio-metabolic phenotype.
* Provide an overview of the epidemiological evidence for how nutritional experiences during critical periods of early development predispose the offspring to the development of adult metabolic phenotypes.
* Describe how prenatal exposure to glucocorticoids may underpin this link
* Summarize animal data linking in utero exposure to cardiometabolic disorders in adulthood.
Reading List
None
Additional Information
Course URL http://www.internationalhealthncd.mvm.ed.ac.uk/
Graduate Attributes and Skills Not entered
Special Arrangements This course will be taught entirely by distance learning, using the virtual learning environment WebCT as the delivery platform. Course materials are protected by secure username and password access that will be made available to registered users.
Additional Class Delivery Information The course will be delivered online in WebCT
KeywordsNot entered
Contacts
Course organiserDr Liz Grant
Tel:
Email: Liz.Grant@ed.ac.uk
Course secretaryDr Liz Grant
Tel:
Email: Liz.Grant@ed.ac.uk
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