Quantification of excess risk for diabetes for those born in times of hunger, in an entire population of a nation, across a century

Based on a unique dataset comprising all 325,000 Austrian patients that were under pharmaceutical treatment for diabetes during 2006 and 2007, we measured the excess risk of developing diabetes triggered by undernourishment in early life. We studied the percentage of all diabetes patients in the tot...

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Main Authors: Szell, Michael, Thurner, Stefan, Klimek, Peter, Duftschmid, Georg, Endel, Gottfried, Kautzky-Willer, Alexandra, Kasper, David C.
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Urban Studies and Planning
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: National Academy of Sciences (U.S.) 2013
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/81302