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Fetal and infant exposure to severe Chinese famine increases the risk of adult dyslipidemia: Results from the China health and retirement longitudinal study

BMC Public Health, 2017
Background To explore the associations between the Chinese famine exposure in early life and the dyslipidemia in adulthood. Methods We selected 2752 participants from the baseline survey of China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS) 2011 ...
Zhenghe Wang, Changwei Li, Zhongping Yang, Jun Ma, Zhiyong Zou   +4 more
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Famine and human rights

, 1991
Famine is clearly and undeniably a terrible wrong, and famine is preventable. The occurrence of famine is an indictment of the ethics of the country in which it has occurred. Despite this, those claiming to represent ethical concerns in general and human
de Waal, Alex
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Association between early exposure to famine and risk of renal impairment in adulthood: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Nutrition & Diabetes
Malnutrition early in life increases the later-life risk of noncommunicable diseases, and previous epidemiologic studies have found a link between famine and renal impairment, but no consensus has been reached.
Mengting Huang, Xin Zeng, Zhuojun Dai, Yuqing Huang, Changfang Luo, Xiaozhen Tan, Zongzhe Jiang, Xia Fang, Yong Xu   +8 more
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Live aid revisited: long-term impacts of the 1984 Ethiopian famine on children [PDF]

In 1984, the world was shocked at the scale of a famine in Ethiopia that caused over half a million deaths, making it one of the worst in recent history. The mortality impacts are clearly significant. But what of the survivors?
Stefan Dercon, Catherine Porter
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Institutions, Famine and Inequality [PDF]

In this paper we analyze whether and which political institutions are important for famine prevention and for keeping the levels of inequality low. While famines are sudden crises hitting a country, inequality is a structural problem.
Francesco Burchi, Pasquale Tridico
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Irlande, écritures et réécritures de la Famine

, 2007
La Grande Famine fut et demeure en Irlande un traumatisme majeur dont les effets se perçoivent dans l’inconscient collectif, l’économie, la langue, la culture mais aussi dans la littérature.
Bertrand Cardin, Claude Fierorbe (dir.)
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Famine Demography - An Introduction [PDF]

Most dictionary definitions of ‘famine’ equate it with food scarcity and widespread hunger. They tend to remain silent on the demographic aspects, although the extra mortality caused by famines offers one easy and obvious gauge for ranking famines.
Cormac Ó Gráda, Tim Dyson
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Drought and famine relationships in Sudan: policy implications [PDF]

Sudan is one of the few countries where famine still persists. Why? What are the determinants of famine in Sudan? What is the role of drought, especially in the context of economic policy failure and war? Who is affected by famine?
Zaki, Elsayed, Ali, Ahmed, von Braun, Joachim, Teklu, Tesfaye   +3 more
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Survival effects of prenatal famine exposure

, 2012
Background: Adverse intrauterine conditions are known to be associated with an increased risk of chronic diseases in adult life. Previously, we showed that prenatal famine exposure increased the incidence of cardiovascular and metabolic disease in ...
Dijkgraaf, Marcel G. W., de Rooij, Susanne R., van Abeelen, Annet F. M., Bossuyt, Patrick M. M., Elias, Sjoerd G., Uiterwaal, Cuno S. P. M., Roseboom, Tessa J., Veenendaal, Marjolein V. E., Grobbee, Diederick E., Painter, Rebecca C.   +9 more
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Ngland: Exposure Festival [PDF]

, 2020
This short film is a companion work to A Profound Difference and presents a visual meditation on the political events and social environment that arose due to the UK Referendum on EU Membership.
Harris, Philip
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