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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, (
Alam, DS +8 more
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Prenatal famine exposure and mental health in later midlife [PDF]
Aging & Mental Health, 2017 Maternal malnutrition during pregnancy may have long-lasting effects on offspring's mental health. We investigate the effect of prenatal exposure to the Dutch famine (mid November 1944 to late April 1945) on mental health in later mid-life.Data are from the Netherlands Kinship Panel Study (n = 642).
Thijs van den Broek, Maria Fleischmann
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Epigenetic Biomarkers for Environmental Exposures and Personalized Breast Cancer Prevention. [PDF]
, 2020 Environmental and lifestyle factors are believed to account for >80% of breast cancers; however, it is not well understood how and when these factors affect risk and which exposed individuals will actually develop the disease.
Park, Hannah Lui
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The risk of stroke after prenatal exposure to famine
Journal of Developmental Origins of Health and Disease, 2017 Prenatal exposure to famine is associated with an increased risk of metabolic and cardiovascular diseases in the offspring at adult age. The aim of this study was to assess whether prenatal exposure to undernutrition increases the risk of stroke. This study was performed in the Dutch famine birth cohort, which consist of 2414 members who were born ...
Horenblas, J. +2 more
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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 ...
Berg, G.J. van den +2 more
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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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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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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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Systolic blood pressure reactions to acute stress are associated with future hypertension status in the Dutch Famine Birth Cohort Study [PDF]
, 2012 These analyses examined the association between blood pressure reactions to acute psychological stress and subsequent hypertension status in a substantial Dutch cohort.
Anna C. Phillips +31 more
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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 +21 more
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