Long-Term Effects of Famine on Chronic Diseases: Evidence from China's Great Leap Forward Famine

Hu, Xuefeng; Liu, Gordon Guoen; Fan, Maoyong

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“…We can also rely on the famine severity across regions to identify the variation of famine exposure in the same birth cohorts. The detailed rationale of using this method to identify the famine effect was explained elsewhere [17], and broadly employed in Chinese famine studies [18, 33, 36, 37 ]. Logit regression models with DID estimators were fitted as the following:…”

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Long-term effect of prenatal exposure to malnutrition on risk of schizophrenia in adulthood: Evidence from the Chinese famine of 1959–1961

Chen

Guo

et al. 2018

Eur. psychiatr.

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“…Due to different famine severity between urban and rural area, following previous studies [21, 33, 37], we performed statistical analyses in rural and urban subsamples, separately. A p-value of less than 0.05 was considered statistically significant.…”

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Long-term effect of prenatal exposure to malnutrition on risk of schizophrenia in adulthood: Evidence from the Chinese famine of 1959–1961

Chen

Guo

et al. 2018

Eur. psychiatr.

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“…The Great Leap Forward Famine (GLFF) in China (1959–1961) explains the adverse effect and selection effect vary among famine exposure at different age. Prenatal/infant exposure to GLFF leads to reduced risk of having chronic disease in later lives and puberty exposure to the GLFF results in increased risk of having chronic diseases [10].…”

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Impact of Early Life or Intrauterine Factors and Socio-Economic Interaction on Diabetes - An Evidence on Thrifty Hypothesis

Siddiqui¹,

Joy²,

Nawaz³

2019

J Lifestyle Med

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Diabetes mellitus is one of the most concerning non-communicable diseases worldwide. The prevalence of diabetes increased rapidly by the influence of socioeconomic interactions. The thrifty hypothesis postulates that certain genes that are involved in positive selection promote efficient fat deposition and storage. This is beneficial for the survival of mankind in adverse conditions. However, in this modern society, these genes have become disadvantageous as people are significantly less likely to experience famines and nutrition shortages. The socioeconomic development that has occurred during the 20th century induced abundance of food supplies in almost all regions of the world. This has led to a rapid rise in the prevalence of obesity, and type 2 diabetes as a consequence. Boom of diabetic pandemic in newly developed countries compare with others those who developed gradually can be explain by thrifty hypothesis, as a result of the difference in the exposure to environmental factors and famine by the ancestors leads. The globalization, urbanization, lack of physical activity, intake of high calorie food and migration is major cause of pandemic emergence of diabetes in high as well as middle and low-income countries.

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“…Meng and Qian (2009) and Gørgens et al (2012) also find that children who experience the Famine before age five had 1-2 cm reduction in adult height. Hu, Liu, and Fan (2017) show that the cohort exposed to the Famine during childhood or puberty had higher risks of chronic diseases. In relation to mental health, St.…”

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“…We use the DID approach in our estimation, which makes use of both the regional variations in Famine intensity and variations across cohorts. This approach is used by Hu et al (2017) and Xu et al (2016) in their analyses of the Famine's long-term impact on survivors.…”

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Surviving the Famine Unscathed? An Analysis of the Long‐Term Health Effects of the Great Chinese Famine

Cheng

Shi

2019

Southern Economic Journal

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We study the long‐term health effects of the Chinese Famine of 1959–1961 on five cohorts of individuals exposed to it at different stages of their early lives. Based on a 2011 national survey, we use instrumental variables to estimate the impact of the Famine on various health and lifestyle indicators for the whole sample and for the female and male subsamples separately. We have found some negative effects of Famine exposure: (i) for the whole sample, Famine exposure reduced adult height for two out of five cohorts; (ii) for both the female and the male subsamples, Famine exposure reduced adult height in one cohort; and on the whole the reduction was larger for males. We have also found in the subsample that Famine exposure was associated with (i) a higher risk of having hypertension in one cohort for females; (ii) a higher likelihood of smoking in one male cohort; and (iii) a higher probability of consuming alcohol in one cohort for males. Finally, we have not found a statistically significant association between Famine exposure and the risk of being overweight or underweight, having diabetes or other chronic diseases, having depression.

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Long-Term Effects of Famine on Chronic Diseases: Evidence from China's Great Leap Forward Famine

Cited by 5 publications

References 57 publications

Long-term effect of prenatal exposure to malnutrition on risk of schizophrenia in adulthood: Evidence from the Chinese famine of 1959–1961

Long-term effect of prenatal exposure to malnutrition on risk of schizophrenia in adulthood: Evidence from the Chinese famine of 1959–1961

Impact of Early Life or Intrauterine Factors and Socio-Economic Interaction on Diabetes - An Evidence on Thrifty Hypothesis

Surviving the Famine Unscathed? An Analysis of the Long‐Term Health Effects of the Great Chinese Famine

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