The phrase "programming effect" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to the impact a program or suite of programs has on an individual, group, or system. For example, "The new programming effect was immediately visible amongst the school's student body, who quickly began to show signs of improvement in their computer studies."
The evidence is conflicting concerning the "programming" effect of breastfeeding in protecting against child obesity, hyperlipidemia, hypertension, type 2 diabetes, and atopic disease.
This study could not detect a "programming" effect of early nutrition supplementation on adult LBM and muscle strength.
In addition to as an assessment tool for a newborn's clinical status, the Apgar score at 5 min may also indicate programming effect of fetal environment on diseases in later life, including childhood cancer.
Along this same line, longitudinal studies of telomere dynamics within specific interventions to accelerate or retard aging (e.g., high fat diet feeding vs. dietary restriction), and including early life exposures and late-life health outcomes to better understand the "early life programming" effect in disease risk, could be informative.
Studies suggest that offspring of diabetic mothers (ODM) undergo a fetal programming effect due to the hyperglycaemic intrauterine milieu which increases their risk of cardiovascular morbidity in adult life.
[10], [11] These studies suggest that glucocorticoid, one of the stress hormones, has a programming effect on obesity.
The effects of prenatal interventions on postnatal growth suggest programming effects in early fetal life.
Furthermore, administration of dexamethasone or carbenoxolone reduces birth weight and exerts programming effects in rats [21,35,150,198,200,255,298,299,306,307].
Genetic effects, programming effects in utero and differentiation effects after birth may account for these prenatal and postnatal associations [ 10].
The effects of these prenatal nutrition interventions on postnatal growth suggest programming effects in early fetal life.
Increasing evidence suggests that early nutrition has programming effects on adult health.
