ArticleJournal of diabetes research2019
Famine Exposure in Early Life and Risk of Metabolic Syndrome in Adulthood: Comparisons of Different Metabolic Syndrome Definitions.
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- Sensitive periods to social adversity in immune and metabolic development: A systematic review.Psychoneuroendocrinology · 2025Pooled it
- Effect of Exposure to Famine during Early Life on Risk of Metabolic Syndrome in Adulthood: A Meta-Analysis.Journal of diabetes research · 2020Pooled it
- Sex-Specific Associations of Famine Exposure in Early Life with Body Shape Indices Across Two Generations in China.Nutrients · 2026Article
- Association between dietary patterns and depressive symptoms in Chinese adults.Asia Pacific journal of clinical nutrition · 2026Article
- Exploring the U-shaped nonlinear relationship of CHG index with metabolic syndrome and mortality risks in metabolic syndrome patients.Lipids in health and disease · 2025Article
- Exposure to the Chinese famine during early life increases the risk of frailty in adulthood: Evidence from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study.Preventive medicine reports · 2025Article
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- Perinatal Famine Exposure and Young-Onset Cancer-Lessons from China Health and Nutrition Survey.Cancers · 2024Article
- Separate and combined effects of famine exposure and menarche age on metabolic syndrome among the elderly: a cross-sectional study in China.BMC women's health · 2023Article
- Famine exposure in early life and type 2 diabetes in adulthood: findings from prospective studies in China.Nutrition research and practice · 2023Article
- Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease and type 2 diabetes: an observational and Mendelian randomization study.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2023Observational
- Association of Metabolically Healthy Obesity and Risk of Cardiovascular Disease Among Adults in China: A Retrospective Cohort Study.Diabetes, metabolic syndrome and obesity : targets and therapy · 2023Article
- Association between early life famine exposure and risk of metabolic syndrome in later life.Journal of diabetes · 2022Article
- Prevalence of Metabolic Syndrome and Risk Factors Among Chinese Adults: Results from a Population-Based Study - Beijing, China, 2017-2018.China CDC weekly · 2022Article
- Early life famine exposure and anthropometric profile in adulthood: a systematic review and Meta-analysis.BMC nutrition · 2022Article
- Adolescence exposure to China's great famine period and the association of metabolic syndrome in adulthood: a retrospective study.BMC public health · 2022Article
- Undernutrition when young and the risk of poor renal function in adulthood in women with diabetes in Shanghai, China.The Journal of international medical research · 2021Article
- Combined Effect of Famine Exposure and Obesity Parameters on Hypertension in the Midaged and Older Adult: A Population-Based Cross-Sectional Study.BioMed research international · 2021Article
- Fetal Exposure to Chinese Famine Increases Obesity Risk in Adulthood.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Article
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Abstract
This study examined the association between famine exposure in early life and the risk of metabolic syndrome (MetS) in adulthood during the 1959-1961 Chinese Famine. Two cross-sectional surveys involving randomly selected Chinese adults aged 35-74 years in the Qingdao area were conducted. A total of 9,588 individuals were grouped into four birth cohorts of unexposed (born between January 1, 1962, and December 31, 1975), fetal-exposed (born between January 1, 1959, and December 31, 1961), childhood-exposed (born between January 1, 1949, and December 31, 1958), and adolescence/adult-exposed cohorts (born between January 1, 1931, and December 31, 1948). We assessed the prevalence rate of MetS in relation to famine exposure according to three definitions of MetS by the National Cholesterol Education Program Adult Treatment Panel III (NCEP-ATP III), International Diabetes Federation (IDF), and China Diabetes Society (CDS). According to the CDS criterion, the prevalence rates of MetS were 17.8%, 25.7%, 31.1%, and 45.3% in the unexposed, fetal-, childhood-, and adolescence/adult-exposed cohorts, respectively (
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