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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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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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Clinical Epigenetics, 2023 Background Undernutrition in pregnant women is an unfavorable environmental condition that can affect the intrauterine development via epigenetic mechanisms and thus have long-lasting detrimental consequences for the mental health of the offspring later ...
Heike Eichenauer, Ulrike Ehlert
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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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PLoS ONE, 2018 BackgroundPrevious epidemiologic studies have reported famine exposure during early life association with overweight or obesity in adulthood, but a consistent perspective has not been established to date.PurposeTo determine, by conducting a systematic ...
Jielin Zhou +9 more
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Environmental Research LettersFamine still exists in this world, hindering the achievement of Sustainable Development Goal 2: zero hunger. The history and the mechanisms of famine have been broadly studied; however, few studies have focused on quantitative and long-term analyses of ...
Soma Funahashi +2 more
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Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 2016 Objective: To investigate whether exposure to the Chinese Famine in different life stages of early life is associated with cognitive functioning decline in adulthood.Methods: We recruited 1366 adults born between 1952 and 1964 and divided them into fetal-
Chao Wang +7 more
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Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Background An earlier study on children diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) at Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital (MTRH) in Kenya reported a low event‐free survival (EFS), excess treatment abandonment, and high induction mortality.
Gilbert Olbara +7 more
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Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Background Germ cell tumors (GCTs) often arise in the ovaries and testes (extracranial) but can also develop in the brain (intracranial). We examined the relationship of individual, family, and community‐level socioeconomic status (SES) with stage of disease at diagnosis in a cohort of pediatric patients with GCT from Children's Oncology Group
Heydon K. Kaddas +7 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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