Increasing evidence that osteoporosis begins in the womb
Recent evidence to suggest that osteoporosis has its origins in the womb will be presented by leading expert, Professor Cyrus Cooper, when he speaks at a symposium on osteoporosis at FOAD 2003, the Second World Congress on the Fetal Origins of Adult Diseases (FOAD), which takes place at the Brighton Conference Centre next month (7 - 10 June). Professor Cooper is Professor of Rheumatology at the MRC Environmental Epidemiology Unit at the University of Southampton, and a member of the research team at the University's Centre for Fetal Origins of Adult Disease. In a presentation entitled 'The Fetal Origins of Osteoporotic Fracture', Professor Cooper will describe how a phenomenon known as progr