Sentences with phrase «born during the famine»

Girls born during the famine that struck Ukraine in 1933, for example, lived to 10.85, and boys to 7.3 — a 50 percent difference.

Not exact matches

The findings of the 7 published observational studies relating breastfeeding to reduced risks of diabetes were broadly consistent, despite the widely differing nature of the populations [including one study conducted in a population born during the Dutch Famine of World War II (6) and 2 conducted in Native American populations (21, 22)-RSB-.

For example, girls born to Dutch women who were pregnant during a long famine at the end of the second world war had twice the usual risk of developing schizophrenia.

The authors examined individuals born between February 1945 and March 1946 whose mothers were exposed to the famine during or immediately preceding pregnancy, individuals conceived between March and May 1945 at the time of extreme famine, and controls born in the same institutions whose mothers did not experience famine while pregnant as well as sibling controls who were also not exposed to famine in pregnancy.

Descended from Irish convicts transported to Van Diemens Land (later renamed Tasmania) during the Great Famine, Richard Flanagan was born in his native island in 1961, the fifth of six children.