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The Dutch Famine Birth Cohort Study examined the impact of lack of nutrition on children born during or after this famine. It showed that over the course of their life, these children were at greater risk of diabetes , cardiovascular disease , obesity , and other non-communicable diseases .
Dutch children eating soup during the famine of 1944–1945 Two Dutch women transporting food during the famine period. The Dutch famine of 1944–1945, also known as the Hunger Winter (from Dutch Hongerwinter), was a famine that took place in the German-occupied Netherlands, especially in the densely populated western provinces north of the great rivers, during the relatively harsh winter of ...
During the Dutch famine doctors found that under-nutrition during the gestation period related to reduced glucose tolerance and raised insulin concentrations between the ages 50 and 58. There were 120 minute glucose and insulin concentrations that were known to be higher in people that were exposed to the famine at any stage during foetal ...
An Avro Lancaster with a food drop over Ypenburg during Operation Manna. Operation Manna and Operation Chowhound were humanitarian food drops to relieve the Dutch famine of 1944–45 in the German-occupied Netherlands undertaken by Allied bomber crews during the last 10 days of the official war in Europe.
The effects of this famine on development lasted up to two generations. [9] [57] The increased risk factors to the health of F1 and F2 generations during the Dutch hunger winter is a known phenomenon called "fetal programming", which is caused by exposure to harmful environmental factors in utero. [57]
Dutch famine of 1944–45; References. a b This page was last edited on 30 October 2024, at 03:46 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution ...
The Dutch famine of 1944 or the "Hunger Winter" during World War II serves as an epidemiological study that is used to examine the effects of maternal under-nutrition during different gestational stages. The famine was a period (roughly five to six months) of extreme food shortage in the west of the Netherlands. [12]
Generation R is a prospective, population based cohort study from fetal life until young adulthood in a multi-ethnic urban population in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. [1] The study is designed to identify early environmental and genetic causes of normal and abnormal growth, development and health. [2]