Exposure to the Chinese famine during early life increases the risk of frailty in adulthood: Evidence from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study [PDF]
Preventive Medicine ReportsObjective: Our study aimed to investigate the relationship between early-life famine exposure and frailty risk in later life among middle-aged and older Chinese adults, advocating for targeted early-life nutritional interventions.
Xiaobing Xian +4 more
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Early-life famine exposure increases the risk of subsequent physical disability: evidence from a national population-based survey [PDF]
Frontiers in Public HealthBackgroundDue to ethical constraints, famines, which can lead to severe malnutrition, are often viewed as natural experiments to assess the impact of early-life nutritional malnutrition on adverse health outcomes in adulthood. However, evidence regarding
Shiwei Cao +9 more
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Association between fetal exposure to the Chinese famine and cognitive decline in adulthood: a retrospective cohort study [PDF]
Frontiers in NutritionBackgroundThe Great Chinese Famine in the 1960s represents a significant historical event with potential long-term health consequences. This study aims to investigate the impact of famine exposure during different developmental stages (fetal, preschool ...
Shuai Xiang +6 more
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History and National Identity Construction: The Great Famine in Irish and Ukrainian History Textbooks [PDF]
, 2006 This paper compares the narratives on the Famine in Irish and Ukrainian history textbooks and examines to what extent these narratives are coloured by a nationalist discourse.
Jan Germen Janmaat
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Exposure to Chinese famine in early life and the risk of multimorbidity in adulthood [PDF]
BMC Public HealthObjectives Previous studies had reported the association between famine exposure in early life and subsequent non-communicable diseases risk. In current study, we aimed to evaluate the associations between famine exposure on multimorbidity prevalence and
Jiahui Zhang +3 more
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The intergenerational legacy of early-life malnutrition during the great leap forward famine in China [PDF]
BMC Public HealthBackground Parents’ early-age experiences may influence their life-course trajectories and potentially also affect the wellbeing of their offspring. There is an emerging body of literature on the intergenerational legacy of early childhood malnutrition ...
Han Zhang, Wing Chung Ho
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The association of famine exposure with healthy lifestyles at different life stages in rural older adults in China [PDF]
Frontiers in Public HealthObjectiveTo assess the potential association between exposure to Chinese famine and healthy lifestyles, as well as any gender disparities in this relationship to provide a scientific basis for the development of effective public health policies and ...
Yuxin Sun +4 more
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Hunger Habitus: State, Society, and Starvation in Twentieth-Century Bengal
East/West: Journal of Ukrainian Studies, 2021 This article offers a brief summary of the complex factors leading to the famine in Bengal in the 1940s and discusses its longer-term impacts—the afterlife, so to speak—of famine. This episode of starvation claimed as many as five million lives in Bengal,
Janam Mukherjee
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Frontiers in Public Health, 2022 BackgroundFew studies have reported the association of early life exposure to famine with the risk of heart failure. The current study aimed to investigate whether exposure to famine in early life is associated with a higher risk of hospitalization for ...
Chao-lei Chen +3 more
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Frontiers in Nutrition, 2022 Although there has been increasing recognition that famine exposure in the fetal stage damages liver function in adulthood, this deteriorated effect could be extended to the next generation remains vague.
Shiwei Yan +5 more
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