ArticleDemography2023
Barker's Hypothesis Among the Global Poor: Positive Long-Term Cardiovascular Effects of in Utero Famine Exposure.
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- The intergenerational legacy of early-life malnutrition during the great leap forward famine in China.BMC public health · 2025Article
- Maternal high glucose and fat diet exposure impaired vascular constriction via miR-325-3P/SHIP2/NOX2 pathway axis in offspring vessels.Cellular and molecular life sciences : CMLS · 2024Article
- Effect of preterm birth on growth and blood pressure in adulthood in the Pelotas 1993 cohort.International journal of epidemiology · 2023Article
- Resilience, Accelerated Aging and Persistently Poor Health: Diverse Trajectories of Health in Malawi.Population and development review · 2023Article
- Cognition and Cognitive Changes in a Low-Income Sub-Saharan African Aging Population.Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD · 2023Article
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An influential literature on the Developmental Origins of Health and Disease (DOHaD) has documented that poor conditions in utero lead to higher risk of cardiovascular disease at older ages. Evidence from low-income countries (LICs) has hitherto been missing, despite the fact that adverse in utero conditions are far more common in LICs. We find that Malawians exposed in utero to the 1949 Nyasaland famine have better cardiovascular health 70 years later. These findings highlight the potential context specificity of the DOHaD hypothesis, with in utero adversity having different health implications among aging LIC individuals who were exposed to persistent poverty.
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