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From famine to NAFLD: long-term association between fetal famine exposure and adult non-alcoholic fatty liver disease [PDF]
Frontiers in MedicineBackgroundMalnutrition in early life may change the structure and function of the body, which lead to a number of diseases in adulthood. There are very few studies in health examination population about the prevalence of NAFLD (non-alcoholic fatty liver ...
Xiaoli Zhang +3 more
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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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Famines Past, Famine's Future [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2010 ABSTRACTFamine, like poverty, has always been with us. No region and no century has been immune. Its scars — economic, psychological and political — can long outlast its immediate impact on mortality and health. Famines are a hallmark of economic backwardness, and were thus more likely to occur in the pre‐industrialized past.
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 This paper aims to examine the impact of CEOs' early-life disaster experiences on corporate earnings quality. We proxy the disaster experience with whether CEOs lived through the Great Chinese Famine and the famine intensity they experienced. The results
Yang Zhao, Jun Hu, Lang Liu
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The Malawi 2002 Famine – Destitution, Democracy and Donors
Nordic Journal of African Studies, 2008 The validity of two famine theories at the political level is assessed using the Malawi 2002 famine: (i) Amartya Sen’s thesis of a positive impact of democracy on famine protection and (ii) De Waal’s thesis stressing the importance of anti-famine ...
Olivier Rubin
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BMJ Open, 2020 Objectives To investigate the association between early life famine exposure and cognitive function in adults.Design Historical cohort studySetting North Wollo Zone, Northeast Ethiopia.Participants We recruited 1047 adult men and women aged 30–38 years ...
Mubarek Abera +5 more
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BMJ Open, 2021 Purpose The Dutch famine birth cohort study was set up to investigate the effects of acute maternal undernutrition of the 1944–1945 Dutch famine during the specific stages of gestation on later health, with a particular focus on chronic cardiovascular ...
Rebecca C Painter +4 more
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Impact of fetal and infant exposure to the Chinese Great Famine on the risk of hypertension in adulthood. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2012 BACKGROUND: Famine provides quasi-experimental conditions for testing the hypothesis of "programming" health effects by poor nutrition in early life.
Pei-Xi Wang +4 more
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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 +4 more
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Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine, 2021 Background: No study has explored the modification effect of ideal cardiovascular health metrics (ICVHMs) on the association between famine exposure and risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD) so far.
Xiong Ding +9 more
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