نتایج جستجو برای: world famine

تعداد نتایج: 434194  

Journal: :Social science & medicine 2016
Hongwei Xu Lydia Li Zhenmei Zhang Jinyu Liu

The fetal origins hypothesis posits that adverse prenatal exposures, particularly malnutrition, increase the risk of poor adult health. Studies using famine as a natural experiment to test the fetal origins hypothesis present conflicting findings, partly because of data limitations and modeling flaws. Capitalizing on the biomarker data and prefecture-level geographic information from the 2011 C...

Journal: :Biodemography and social biology 2017
Zhuoni Zhang Shige Song Xiaogang Wu

This article examines the long-term health consequences of China's 1959-1961 famine by comparing people who stayed in Guangdong and endured the famine with people who crossed the border to immigrate to Hong Kong and thus escaped the famine. Based on data from the Hong Kong Panel Study of Social Dynamics (HKPSSD) and the China Family Panel Studies (CFPS), we focused on two health indicators-body...

2017
Matthias Blum Christopher L. Colvin Eoin McLaughlin

What impact do famines have on survivors? We use individual-level data on a population exposed to severe famine conditions during infancy to document two opposing effects. The first: exposure to insufficient food and a worsened disease environment is associated with poor health into adulthood – a scarring effect. The second: famine survivors do not themselves suffer any health impact – a select...

Journal: :Cancer epidemiology, biomarkers & prevention : a publication of the American Association for Cancer Research, cosponsored by the American Society of Preventive Oncology 2005
Sjoerd G Elias Petra H M Peeters Diederick E Grobbee Paulus A H van Noord

Caloric restriction seems to be the most potent dietary intervention to protect against a variety of cancers in animals. We investigated whether overall cancer risk is affected in humans after exposure to a brief famine, followed by a period of abundance. We used data of approximately 15,000 women who were exposed at various degrees to the 1944-1945 Dutch famine at ages between 2 and 33 years. ...

2015
Xin Meng Nancy Qian Pierre Yared

This paper studies the causes of China’s Great Famine, during which 16.5 to 45 million individuals perished in rural areas. We document that average rural food retention during the famine was too high to generate a severe famine without rural inequality in food availability; that there was significant variance in famine mortality rates across rural regions; and that rural mortality rates were p...

2016
XIN MENG NANCY QIAN

This article studies the causes of China’s Great Famine, during which 16.5 to 45 million individuals perished in rural areas. We document that average rural food retention during the famine was too high to generate a severe famine without rural inequality in food availability; that there was significant variance in famine mortality rates across rural regions; and that rural mortality rates were...

2012
Pei-Xi Wang Jia-Ji Wang Yi-Xiong Lei Lin Xiao Zhong-Cheng Luo

BACKGROUND Famine provides quasi-experimental conditions for testing the hypothesis of "programming" health effects by poor nutrition in early life. It remains uncertain whether early life exposure to famine increases the risk of hypertension in adulthood. There is a lack of data on the relative impact of exposure to famine during fetal development versus infancy (<2 years postnatal). We sought...

Journal: :Diabetes care 2006
Susanne R de Rooij Rebecca C Painter David I W Phillips Clive Osmond Robert P J Michels Ian F Godsland Patrick M M Bossuyt Otto P Bleker Tessa J Roseboom

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 both. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS We perform...

2016
Chao Wang Yu An Huanling Yu Lingli Feng Quanri Liu Yanhui Lu Hui Wang Rong Xiao

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 1950 and 1964 and divided them into fetal-exposed, early childhood-exposed (1-3 years old during the famine), mid childhood-exposed (4-6 years old during the famine), late childhood-e...

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