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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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BMC Public Health, 2023 Background Famine is a risk factor for non-communicable chronic diseases (NCDs), which account for over 80% of deaths in China. The effect of famine on the prevalence of NCDs in terms of various age groups, time periods and cohorts is currently poorly ...
Xiaoxue He +7 more
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Thyroid Function at Age Fifty After Prenatal Famine Exposure in the Dutch Famine Birth Cohort
Frontiers in Endocrinology, 2022 BackgroundEarly-life exposures during gestation may permanently alter thyroid physiology and health in adulthood. We investigated whether exposure to the Dutch Famine (1944-1945) in late, mid, or early gestation influences thyroid function (i.e ...
Sarai M. Keestra +13 more
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Diabetology & Metabolic Syndrome, 2022 Background Patients with metabolic syndrome (MS) have a higher incidence of cardiovascular disease (CVD), but the possible mechanisms are not fully understood and further exploration of the possible factors influencing the high incidence of CVD in ...
Zhe Shu +9 more
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Journal of Diabetes Research, 2020 Background. Emerging studies have explored the association between the famine exposure during early life and the risk of the metabolic syndrome, and the results remain controversial. This meta-analysis was performed to summarize the famine effects on the
Lu-Lu Qin +4 more
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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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The potato murrain on the European continent and the revolutions of 1848 [PDF]
, 2008 The tale of the Irish Famine, 1845¿1849, following the outbreak of potato late blight, has been told repeatedly, but the parallel story of the Continental Famine, 1845¿1847, has not yet been recorded. The Continental Famine was caused by poor harvests of
Zadoks, J.C.
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BMC Women's Health, 2023 Background Epidemiological studies have revealed multiple risk factors for metabolic syndrome. However, there are no consistent findings on the association between famine exposure, age at menarche, and the prevalence of metabolic syndrome.
Congzhi Wang +8 more
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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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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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