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Many of today's common medical conditions, from osteoporosis to hyperactivity, were not recognized as medical conditions a century ago. Medicalization is the term for the process by which these phenomena and many others have come to be viewed as medical conditions

he discovery that individuals who develop coronary heart disease grow differently during early life has led to the recognition of new developmental models for the disease. In 1995 David Barker wrote: "The fetal origins hypothesis states that fetal undernutrition in middle to late gestation, which leads to disproportionate fetal growth, programmes later coronary heart disease."