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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Is famine exposure during developmental life in rural Bangladesh associated with a metabolic and epigenetic signature in young adulthood? A historical cohort study [PDF]
, 2016 Objectives Famine exposure in utero can ‘programme’ an individual towards type 2 diabetes and obesity in later life. We sought to identify, (1) whether Bangladeshis exposed to famine during developmental life are programmed towards diabetes and obesity, (
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Microalbuminuria in Adults after Prenatal Exposure to the Dutch Famine [PDF]
Journal of the American Society of Nephrology, 2005 Maternal undernutrition during gestation is associated with an increase in cardiovascular risk factors in the offspring in adult life. The effect of famine exposure during different stages of gestation on adult microalbuminuria (MA) was studied. MA was measured in 724 people, aged 48 to 53, who were born as term singletons in a university hospital in ...
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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.
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Impaired Insulin Secretion After Prenatal Exposure to the Dutch Famine [PDF]
Diabetes Care, 2006 OBJECTIVE—We previously reported that people prenatally exposed to famine during the Dutch Hunger Winter of 1944–1945 have higher 2-h glucose concentrations after an oral glucose tolerance test in later life. We aimed to determine whether this association is mediated through alterations in insulin secretion, insulin sensitivity, or a combination of ...
de Rooij, Susanne R. +8 more
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Anthropometric measures in middle age after exposure to famine during gestation: evidence from the Dutch famine [PDF]
The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 2007 Few studies in humans have related maternal undernutrition to the size of the adult offspring.The objective was to assess whether reductions in food intake by pregnant women during the Dutch famine of 1944-1945 were related to offspring length, weight, and indexes of adiposity in middle age.We recruited 1) exposed persons born in western Netherlands ...
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In utero exposure to famine and subsequent fertility: The Dutch Famine Birth Cohort Study. [PDF]
American Journal of Public Health, 1997 OBJECTIVES: We hypothesized that if prenatal caloric restriction due to nutritional deprivation had affected development of the organs responsible for producing and regulating female reproductive hormones, a woman's fertility would be impaired. METHODS: Women born in Amsterdam from August 1, 1944, through April 15, 1946, a period encompassing a severe
L H, Lumey, A D, Stein
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Prenatal famine exposure has sex-specific effects on brain size [PDF]
Brain, 2016 Early nutritional deprivation might cause irreversible damage to the brain. Prenatal exposure to undernutrition has been shown to be associated with increased central nervous system anomalies at birth and decreased cognitive function in adulthood. Little is known about the potential effect on the brain in older age.
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Effects of prenatal and early life malnutrition: Evidence from the Greek famine [PDF]
, 2010 This paper examines the long run education and labor market effects from early-life exposure to the Greek 1941-42 famine. Given the short duration of the famine, we can separately identify the famine effects for cohorts exposed in utero, during infancy ...
Neelsen, Sven, Stratmann, Thomas
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Long-Run Effects of Gestation during the Dutch Hunger Winter Famine on Labor Market and Hospitalization Outcomes [PDF]
, 2012 The Dutch Hunger Winter (1944/45) is the most-studied famine in the literature on long-run effects of malnutrition in utero. Its temporal and spatial demarcations are clear, it was severe, it was not anticipated, and nutritional conditions in society ...
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