| Title |
Hypertension, Diabetes and Overweight: Looming Legacies of the Biafran Famine
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|---|---|
| Published in |
PLOS ONE, October 2010
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| DOI | 10.1371/journal.pone.0013582 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Martin Hult, Per Tornhammar, Peter Ueda, Charles Chima, Anna-Karin Edstedt Bonamy, Benjamin Ozumba, Mikael Norman |
| Abstract |
Sub-Saharan Africa is facing rapidly increasing prevalences of cardiovascular disease, obesity, diabetes and hypertension. Previous and ongoing undernutrition among pregnant women may contribute to this development as suggested by epidemiological studies from high income countries linking undernutrition in fetal life with increased burden of non-communicable diseases in later life. We undertook to study the risks for hypertension, glucose intolerance and overweight forty years after fetal exposure to famine afflicted Biafra during the Nigerian civil war (1967-1970). |
X Demographics
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 6 | 27% |
| Switzerland | 1 | 5% |
| United States | 1 | 5% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 5% |
| Canada | 1 | 5% |
| Sweden | 1 | 5% |
| Unknown | 11 | 50% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 18 | 82% |
| Scientists | 4 | 18% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 263 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Mexico | 2 | <1% |
| Nigeria | 2 | <1% |
| South Africa | 1 | <1% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | <1% |
| Canada | 1 | <1% |
| Malaysia | 1 | <1% |
| Cameroon | 1 | <1% |
| Rwanda | 1 | <1% |
| Japan | 1 | <1% |
| Other | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 251 | 95% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 54 | 21% |
| Researcher | 34 | 13% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 32 | 12% |
| Student > Bachelor | 30 | 11% |
| Student > Postgraduate | 21 | 8% |
| Other | 37 | 14% |
| Unknown | 55 | 21% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 83 | 32% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 29 | 11% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 21 | 8% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 20 | 8% |
| Social Sciences | 12 | 5% |
| Other | 32 | 12% |
| Unknown | 66 | 25% |