Fetal body composition may be modifiable via nutritional intervention in the mother and thus may play an important role in influencing the offspring's risk of future disease.
There is a statistically significant reduction in nitric oxide synthase activity in placentas from pregnancies with abnormal umbilical artery flow velocity waveforms.
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