What is it about?
Some literature data and our previous studies suggest a possible positive correlation between starvation during childhood and the risk of developing impaired glucose tolerance, type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2D), and obesity. However, in Ukraine current prevalence of screening-detected type 2 diabetes (SDDM) among those who survived the famine during childhood and are still alive today remains unknown. The risk of SDDM associated with starvation at an early age, revealed by glucose tolerance testing many years later, is the subject of our investigation.
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Why is it important?
This study shows that individuals who starved during famines of 1932 to 1933 and/or 1946 in Ukraine had a decreased screening-detected diabetes mellitus prevalence several decades after the famine episodes.
Perspectives
Being possibly the first simultaneous interpretation of data concerning the fact of childhood starvation and anthropometric and biochemical measurements at the level of a Ukrainian rural community can be considered one of this studies’ strengths
Dr. Mykola D. Khalangot
Shupyk Medical Academy of Postgraduate Education
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This page is a summary of: Glucose Tolerance Testing and Anthropometric Comparisons Among Rural Residents of Kyiv Region: Investigating the Possible Effect of Childhood Starvation—A Community-Based Study, Nutrition and Metabolic Insights, January 2017, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/1178638817741281.
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