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Association between early life exposure to the great famine and possible sarcopenia in older Chinese adults: a national cross-sectional study

BMJ Open, 2023
Objectives We used data from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS) to investigate how an early life famine exposure affected possible sarcopenia (PS) and to explore the extent to which a sex difference exists in the association ...
Ning Ma, Yi Song, Hao Cheng, Ting Wu, Xiaojin Yan, Yunfei Liu, Jiajia Dang, Panliang Zhong, Di Shi, Shan Cai, Patrick W C Lau   +10 more
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Increase in the prevalence of hypertension among adults exposed to the Great Chinese Famine during early life

Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine, 2017
Objective This study aimed to assess the association between exposure to the Great Chinese Famine (1959–1961) during early life and hypertension in adulthood.
Lingli Liu, Xianglong Xu, Huan Zeng, Yong Zhang, Zumin Shi, Fan Zhang, Xianqing Cao, Yao Jie Xie, Cesar Reis, Yong Zhao   +9 more
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Regional Interactions in Social Responses to Extreme Climate Events: A Case Study of the North China Famine of 1876–1879

Atmosphere, 2020
The North China Famine of 1876–1879, known in Chinese as the Dingwu qihuang (丁戊奇荒), is a famous case of drought-induced famine in Chinese history. The purpose of this paper is to provide empirical and historical evidence for understanding the impacts of ...
Xianshuai Zhai, Xiuqi Fang, Yun Su
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Early‐Life Famine Exposure and Risk of Cardiovascular Diseases in Later Life: Findings From the REACTION Study

Journal of the American Heart Association: Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Disease, 2020
Background Previous studies reported that early‐life exposure to undernutrition is associated with the risk of diabetes mellitus and metabolic syndrome in adulthood, but the association with risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD) later in life remains ...
Rui Du, Ruizhi Zheng, Yu Xu, Yuanyue Zhu, Xuefeng Yu, Mian Li, Xulei Tang, Ruying Hu, Qing Su, Tiange Wang, Zhiyun Zhao, Min Xu, Yuhong Chen, Lixin Shi, Qin Wan, Gang Chen, Meng Dai, Di Zhang, Zhengnan Gao, Guixia Wang, Feixia Shen, Zuojie Luo, Yingfen Qin, Li Chen, Yanan Huo, Qiang Li, Zhen Ye, Yinfei Zhang, Chao Liu, Youmin Wang, Shengli Wu, Tao Yang, Huacong Deng, Lulu Chen, Jiajun Zhao, Yiming Mu, Donghui Li, Guijun Qin, Weiqing Wang, Guang Ning, Li Yan, Yufang Bi, Jieli Lu   +42 more
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Comparing the Soviet and Chinese Famines: Their Perpetrators, Actors, and Victims

East/West: Journal of Ukrainian Studies, 2016
The Soviet (1931-33) and Chinese (1958-62) famines were man-made catastrophes that occurred in underdeveloped states with growing populations during peacetime and affected traditional surplus areas.
Lucien Bianco
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How does early-life famine experience influence household energy transition?

Heliyon, 2023
The transition of households towards cleaner energy is crucial for achieving sustainable development goals. However, the impacts and associated mechanisms of early-life experiences on household energy transition have not been considered.
Feiran Wang, Tianyu Wei, Shulei Cheng, Lu Zhuang, Shuqin Lan   +4 more
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CEOs’ Experience of the Great Chinese Famine and Accounting Conservatism [PDF]

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2018
AbstractThis study investigates how a CEO's early‐life experience of the Great Chinese Famine affects corporate accounting conservatism. We find that companies whose CEOs had experienced famines in early life adopted more conservative accounting policies.
Hu, Jun, Long, Wenbin, Tian, Gary Gang, Yao, Daifei (Troy)   +3 more
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DNA methylation changes related to nutritional deprivation: a genome-wide analysis of population and in vitro data

Clinical Epigenetics, 2019
Background DNA methylation has recently been identified as a mediator between in utero famine exposure and a range of metabolic and psychiatric traits. However, genome-wide analyses are scarce and cross-sectional analyses are hampered by many potential ...
Yujie He, Lot D. de Witte, Lotte C. Houtepen, Danny M. Nispeling, Zhida Xu, Qiong Yu, Yaqin Yu, Elly M. Hol, René S. Kahn, Marco P. Boks   +9 more
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CEOs’ early famine experience, managerial discretion and corporate social responsibility

Humanities & Social Sciences Communications, 2023
Corporate social responsibility (CSR) reflects entrepreneurs’ early life experiences in reality. Based on imprinting theory and upper echelons theory, this paper examines the impact of a CEO’s early famine experience on CSR, analyzes the moderating ...
Zhaocheng Xu
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How Chief Executive Officers’ first-hand experience of the Great Chinese Famine affects risk-taking?

Humanities & Social Sciences Communications, 2023
To understand the influence of Chief Executive Officers’ (CEOs) early life experiences on their firms’ strategic decision-making, here we explore the impacts of CEOs’ experience of the Great Chinese Famine (1959–1961) on their cognitions and firm risk ...
Dayuan Li, Chen Huang, Ding Wang
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