Is Exposure to Famine in Childhood and Economic Development in Adulthood Associated With Diabetes? | Zendy

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Is Exposure to Famine in Childhood and Economic Development in Adulthood Associated With Diabetes?

Author(s) -

Ningjian Wang,

Xiaojin Wang,

Bing Han,

Qin Li,

Yi Chen,

Chunfang Zhu,

Yingchao Chen,

Fangzhen Xia,

Zhen Cang,

Chaoxia Zhu,

Meng Lu,

Ying Meng,

Chi Chen,

Dongping Lin,

Bingshun Wang,

Michael D. Jensen,

Yingli Lu

Publication year - 2015

Publication title -

the journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.206

H-Index - 353

eISSN - 1945-7197

pISSN - 0021-972X

DOI - 10.1210/jc.2015-2750

Subject(s) - famine , diabetes mellitus , medicine , demography , confidence interval , odds ratio , cross sectional study , gerontology , endocrinology , geography , pathology , sociology , archaeology

The Chinese were afflicted by great famine between 1959 and 1962. These people then experienced rapid economic development during which the gross domestic product per capita increased from $28 in 1978 to $6807 in 2013. We hypothesize that these two events are associated with the booming rate of diabetes in China.

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