Early-life exposure to the Chinese famine and tuberculosis risk: Unrecognized biases from different measures of famine intensity

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2021 Apr 20;118(16):e2102809118. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2102809118.

Authors

Chihua Li^{1

2}, Zhenwei Zhou³, L H Lumey⁴

Affiliations

¹ Department of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, NY 10032.
² Department of Endocrinology, Zhengzhou Central Hospital Affiliated to Zhengzhou University, Henan 450052, China.
³ Department of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02118.
⁴ Department of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, NY 10032; lumey@columbia.edu.

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MeSH terms

Bias
China / epidemiology
Famine
Female
Humans
Pregnancy
Prenatal Exposure Delayed Effects*
Starvation*
Tuberculosis* / epidemiology