David Barker (epidemiologist)
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David James Purslove Barker (29 June 1938 – 27 August 2013) was an English physician and epidemiologist and originator of the Barker Hypothesis that fetal and early infant conditions have a permanent conditioning effect on the body's metabolism and chronic conditions later in life.[1][2][3] He won the GlaxoSmithKline Prize in 1994 for this work.
Barker was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society and a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences in 1998 and was appointed a CBE in 2006.[3]
References
- ↑ Cooper C (2013) David Barker 1938–2013, Nature 502(7471), 304.
- ↑ Pincock S (2013) David Barker, The Lancet 382(9899), 1170.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Cooper C (2013) David Barker Obituary, The Guardian Wednesday 11 September 2013.
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