Association of Parental Famine Exposure With Offspring Depression and Cognition Function [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2022 BackgroundThe effect of early exposure to famine on depression and cognition in adulthood has been shown, but the intergenerational association of famine remain to be explored.
Ye Liu +6 more
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Journal of Diabetes, 2022 Background Previous studies reported that famine exposure had an effect on metabolic syndrome (MetS). However, there is an inadequacy of study regarding the association between famine exposure, adulthood general obesity, and the risk of MetS.
Yi Zhang +17 more
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Prenatal famine exposure and adult health outcomes: an epigenetic link. [PDF]
Environ Epigenet, 2021 Abstract Numerous human chronic pathological conditions depend on epigenetic modifications induced by environmental triggers throughout sensitive stages early in development. Developmental malnutrition is regarded as one of the most important risk factors in these processes.
Vaiserman A, Lushchak O.
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Thyroid Function at Age Fifty After Prenatal Famine Exposure in the Dutch Famine Birth Cohort [PDF]
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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Metabolites in the association between early-life famine exposure and type 2 diabetes in adulthood over a 5-year follow-up period [PDF]
BMJ Open Diabetes Research & Care, 2021 Introduction Exposure to malnutrition in early life has been found to significantly elevate type 2 diabetes risk in adulthood. However, the changes in metabolites resulting from malnutrition in early life have not been studied.
Wen Zhang +6 more
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Impact of prenatal famine exposure on adulthood fasting blood glucose level [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2022 In the past decade, in low-income countries, there have been a rapid rise in prevalence of diabetes among adult population. Hence, understanding the context specific drivers of this change including the impacts of childhood nutrition adversaries on adult
Kalkidan Hassen Abate +4 more
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Accelerated biological aging six decades after prenatal famine exposure. [PDF]
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2023 To test the hypothesis that early-life adversity accelerates the pace of biological aging, we analyzed data from the Dutch Hunger Winter Families Study (DHWFS, N = 951). DHWFS is a natural-experiment birth-cohort study of survivors of in-utero exposure to famine conditions caused by the German occupation of the Western Netherlands in Winter 1944 to ...
Cheng M +13 more
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Separate and combined effects of famine exposure and menarche age on metabolic syndrome among the elderly: a cross-sectional study in China [PDF]
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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Prenatal famine exposure and cognition at age 59 years [PDF]
International Journal of Epidemiology, 2011 Despite the perceived importance of early life nutrition for mental development, few studies have related gestational undernutrition to later-life cognitive functioning. We investigated the consequences of gestational exposure to the Dutch famine of 1944-45 for cognitive functioning at the age of 59 years.We recruited men and women who were (i) born in
Renate HM de Groot +6 more
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Association of Prenatal Famine Exposure With Inflammatory Markers and Its Impact on Adulthood Liver Function Across Consecutive Generations [PDF]
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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