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The association between prenatal famine, DNA methylation and mental disorders: a systematic review and meta-analysis

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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Early-life exposure to Chinese famine and stroke risk in mid- to late life: the mediating roles of cognitive function and depression

BMC Geriatrics, 2022
Background Limited research has examined the role that famine exposure plays in adulthood stroke risk. We aim to explore the causal implications of early exposure to the Great Chinese Famine on stroke risk and determine whether these associations were ...
Zi Zhou, Wei Zhang, Ya Fang
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Neuronal Dysfunction Is Linked to the Famine-Associated Risk of Proliferative Retinopathy in Patients With Type 2 Diabetes

Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2022
Persons with type 2 diabetes born in the regions of famine exposures have disproportionally elevated risk of vision-threatening proliferative diabetic retinopathy (PDR) in adulthood. However, the underlying mechanisms are not known. In the present study,
Olena Fedotkina, Ruchi Jain, Rashmi B. Prasad, Andrea Luk, Marta García-Ramírez, Türküler Özgümüs, Liubov Cherviakova, Nadiya Khalimon, Tetiana Svietleisha, Tetiana Buldenko, Victor Kravchenko, Deepak Jain, Allan Vaag, Juliana Chan, Mykola D. Khalangot, Mykola D. Khalangot, Cristina Hernández, Peter M. Nilsson, Rafael Simo, Isabella Artner, Valeriya Lyssenko, Valeriya Lyssenko   +21 more
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Impact of early life famine exposure on adulthood anthropometry among survivors of the 1983–1985 Ethiopian Great famine: a historical cohort study

BMC Public Health, 2021
Background Nutritional insult in early life brings adaptive changes in body structure and functioning that could remain throughout the affected individual’s life course.
Getachew Arage, Tefera Belachew, Kemal Hajmahmud, Mubarek Abera, Fedilu Abdulhay, Misra Abdulahi, Kalkidan Hassen Abate   +6 more
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Famine in the young and risk of later hospitalization for COPD and asthma. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2013
BACKGROUND: Undernutrition during critical periods of growth and development may permanently affect lung physiology and function. OBJECTIVES: To investigate whether acute undernutrition in childhood or young adulthood increases the risk of later ...
Annet F M van Abeelen, Sjoerd G Elias, Pim A de Jong, Diederick E Grobbee, Patrick M M Bossuyt, Yvonne T van der Schouw, Tessa J Roseboom, Cuno S P M Uiterwaal   +7 more
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Gestational exposure to the great Chinese famine: early life undernutrition impact on prostatic hyperplasia in adulthood

Frontiers in Nutrition
IntroductionBenign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) is a frequent illness in aged men that impacts their quality of life; early childhood exposure to famines may have long-term effects on the chance of developing BPH.
Siyao Wang, Yong Zhang, Yong Zhang, Xiaoya Qi, Xiaoyang Xu   +4 more
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The development of the 1983-85 famine in northern Ethiopia [PDF]

In this thesis it is argued that famine is a concatenation process caused by a severe shock to the economy which in turn leads to a series of socio-economic adjustments by the affected population. If the economic shock is sufficiently prolonged, then
Cutler, Peter Vincent
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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

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, Ningjian Wang, Yingli Lu, Chi Chen, Fangzhen Xia, Yuying Wang, Heng Wan   +6 more
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Exposure to different severities of famine and subsequent risk of sarcopenia in old age

Journal of Nutritional Oncology
. Background. Poor nutritional status is closely related to the development of sarcopenia and possible sarcopenia. Limited articles have evaluated the impact of undernutrition at different stages of life on the development of sarcopenia or possible ...
Miao-Miao Lu, Yu-Wei Zhou, Xi Jin
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Association between exposure to the Chinese Famine in different stages of early life and decline in cognitive functioning in adulthood

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, Yu An, Huanling Yu, Lingli Feng, Quanri Liu, Yanhui Lu, Hui Wang, Rong Xiao   +7 more
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