T2D More Than Doubled Seven Decades After Exposure to Famine

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Researchers at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and at the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine used the setting of the man-made Ukrainian Holodomor famine of 1932-1933 to examine the relation between prenatal famine and adult Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). They studied 128,225 Type 2 diabetes cases diagnosed between 2000-2008 among 10,186,016 male and female Ukrainians born between 1930 and 1938.

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[bigskygal]

That was a fascinating article! I learned some history of Russia vs Ukraine that was pretty terrible. I read the story the woman recalled of her childhood, how awful that must have been to live through. And sadly a connection between famine and diabetes. The survivors could be doomed to suffer yet again.