Erschienen in:
10.05.2017 | Letter
Studies into severe famine in early life and diabetes in adulthood: the need to control for differences in participant age and location
verfasst von:
Chihua Li, L. H. Lumey
Erschienen in:
Diabetologia
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Ausgabe 7/2017
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To the Editor: In their very interesting study of China’s Great Famine of 1959–1962, Wang et al conclude that exposure to famine in the fetal or childhood period may increase diabetes risk in adulthood, and that both the prenatal and postnatal periods may offer critical time windows for the determination of diabetes risk [
1]. These conclusions are incomplete and potentially misleading. …