Rates of adult schizophrenia following prenatal exposure to the Chinese famine of 1959-1961.

By D. St. Clair, Mingqing Xu, Pengkun Wang, Yaqin Yu, Yourong Fang, Feng Zhang, Xiaoying Zheng, N. Gu, G. Feng, Pak Chung Sham and 1 more. Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), 2005

751 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, Psychiatry and Mental health, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

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In Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health

1. Janet Currie
2. D. Almond
3. R. Jirtle
4. Mevlude Akbulut‐Yuksel
5. C. Tisdell
6. A. Isen
7. Maya Rossin-Slater
8. W. R. Walker

In Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

1. Janet Currie

Citations in the corpus

• Environmental epigenomics and disease susceptibility (2007, background): “1–4 ) and even behavioural disorders such as schizophreni”
• Making Famine History (2007, background): “Research in St. Petersburg—where famine was much more intense in 1941–43 than in either the Netherlands or China—shows that the siege affected the life expectancy of surviving children, the main contributory factor being the increased risk of arteriosclerosis (Pär Sparén et al. 2004; Lidiya Khoroshi”
• Killing Me Softly: The Fetal Origins Hypothesis (2011, background): “This finding has been replicated for the Chinese famine of 1959–61 [St. Clair et al., 2005], but not for famines associated with the seige of Leningrad [Stanner et al., 1997], nor the 1866–68 famine in Finland [Kannisto, Christensen, and Vaupel, 1997].”