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A comprehensive review was conducted following an extensive literature search in the PubMed\/Medline and EMBASE databases concerning reports on fetal\/intrauterine growth restriction and its metabolic-related long-term outcomes. We only included articles written in English that were published before 1 July 2024. There are several underlying mechanisms and metabolic and endocrine adjustments shaped by the perinatal environment, and they all contribute to progression towards adult disease. From in utero malnutrition or other insults during the fetal period to fetal programing and postnatal catch-up growth, it is difficult to identify the exact moment when this adaptative phenomenon meant to assure fetal survival and to set children on their own physiological growth curves lose its beneficial effect, establishing the trajectory to obesity, insulin resistance, and other hallmarks of metabolic syndrome. With clinical correspondence to an altered body mass, composition, and eating behaviors, it is evident that the metabolic complications linked to FGR are intricate and arise from disturbances in several pathways and organs, but the underlying processes responsible for the long-term consequences are just starting to be understood. The lack of continuity in perinatal-to-pediatric FGR research sets the challenge of exploring new directions in future scientific opportunities. 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