Studies into severe famine in early life and diabetes in adulthood: the need to control for differences in participant age and location.

Chihua Li, L H Lumey

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Article in Diabetologia, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed.

Epigenetics and childhood obesity: DNA methylation coordinates environment and gene regulation.Endocrine reviews · 2026
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Famine mortality and contributions to later-life type 2 diabetes at the population level: a synthesis of findings from Ukrainian, Dutch and Chinese famines.BMJ global health · 2024
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Reconsidering the developmental origins of adult disease paradigm: The 'metabolic coordination of childbirth' hypothesis.Evolution, medicine, and public health · 2024
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Association between famine exposure in early life with insulin resistance and beta cell dysfunction in adulthood.Nutrition & diabetes · 2020
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Developmental undernutrition, offspring obesity and type 2 diabetes.Diabetologia · 2019
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The association between fetal-stage exposure to the China famine and risk of diabetes mellitus in adulthood: results from the China health and retirement longitudinal study.BMC public health · 2018
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The Risks of Overweight, Obesity and Abdominal Obesity in Middle Age after Exposure to Famine in Early Life: Evidence from the China's 1959-1961 Famine.The journal of nutrition, health & aging · 2018
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4 · The record

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Exposure to severe famine in the prenatal or postnatal period and the development of diabetes in adulthood: an observational study.2017

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Chihua LiDepartment of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, 722 W 168th Street, 1617A, New York, NY, 10032, USA.

L H LumeyDepartment of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, 722 W 168th Street, 1617A, New York, NY, 10032, USA. lumey@columbia.edu.

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Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2StarvationHumansPrenatal Exposure Delayed EffectsUrban PopulationChinese famineFetal originsPrenatal exposure long-term effects

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PMID28492964

DOI10.1007/s00125-017-4300-9

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