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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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Facing famine: Somali experiences in the famine of 2011
Food Policy, 2016 In 2011-12, Somalia experienced the worst famine of the twenty- first century. Since then, research on the famine has focused almost exclusively on the external response, the reasons for the delay in the international response, and the implications for international humanitarian action in the context of the "global war on terror." This paper focuses on
Daniel Maxwell, Jeeyon Janet Kim
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Childhood famine exposure and the risk of gastrointestinal diseases in old individuals: a retrospective cohort analysis using the CHARLS database [PDF]
BMC Public HealthBackground The aging of the global population exacerbates the burden of gastrointestinal diseases in elderly individuals. The Developmental Origins of Health and Disease (DOHaD) hypothesis suggests that early-life malnutrition may have long-lasting ...
Qingquan Yang, Zhiyuan Rong
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BMC MedicineBackground Exposure to famine in the prenatal period is associated with an increased risk of metabolic disease, including obesity and type 2 diabetes. We employed nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) metabolomic profiling to identify the metabolic changes ...
M. Jazmin Taeubert +10 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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Reporting Distant Suffering: Photographic Representation of Famine in Turkish Newspapers
Connectist Istanbul University Journal of Communication Sciences, 2022 Famine is a serious problem that causes millions of people to suffer globally. During the 20th century, over 70 million people died due to famine while millions more had to endure the adverse conditions created by it.
Tuğba Taş, Burcu Sümer, Oğuzhan Taş
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