Exposure to the Chinese famine in childhood increases type 2 diabetes risk in adults

Journal of Nutrition

Volumn 146, Issue 11, 2016, Pages 2289-2295

  Wang, Jing ^a   Li, Yaru ^a   Han, Xu ^a   Liu, Bing ^a   Hu, Hua ^a   Wang, Fei ^a   Li, Xiulou ^b   Yang, Kun ^b   Yuan, Jing ^a   Yao, Ping ^a   Miao, Xiaoping ^a   Wei, Sheng ^a   Wang, Youjie ^a   Liang, Yuan ^a   Zhang, Xiaomin ^a   Guo, Huan ^a   Yang, Handong ^b   Hu, Frank B ^c   Wu, Tangchun ^a   He, Meian ^a  

^a HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b HUBEI UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE   (China)

^c HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Childhood; China; Famine; Fetal; Type 2 diabetes

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILDHOOD; CHINA; COHORT ANALYSIS; DYSGLYCEMIA; EXPOSURE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; HUNGER; HYPERGLYCEMIA; INFANT; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; NEWBORN; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL MODEL; BODY MASS; CHILD NUTRITION; HISTORY; NUTRITIONAL DISORDER; ODDS RATIO; RURAL POPULATION; STARVATION; URBAN POPULATION;

BODY MASS INDEX; CHILD; CHILD NUTRITION DISORDERS; CHILD NUTRITIONAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; CHINA; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; FEMALE; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; RISK FACTORS; RURAL POPULATION; STARVATION; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 84995450742     PISSN: 00223166     EISSN: 15416100     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3945/jn.116.234575     Document Type: Article

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