Postgraduate Course: Environmental determinants of cardiometabolic disorders - birth weight & prenatal programming/rural to urban transition (GMED11017)
Course Outline
| School | Deanery of Clinical Sciences |
College | College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
Availability | Available to all students |
| SCQF Credits | 10 |
ECTS Credits | 5 |
| Summary | This 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
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| Course description |
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Other requirements | None |
| Additional Costs | Students will be responsible for their computer equipment and internet access. |
Information for Visiting Students
| Pre-requisites | None |
Course Delivery Information
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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.
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Additional Information
| Course URL |
http://www.internationalhealthncd.mvm.ed.ac.uk/ |
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
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| 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 |
| Keywords | Not entered |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Liz Grant
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Course secretary | Dr Liz Grant
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