News at HSPHA new study in the journal Diabetes by Frank Hu, professor of nutrition and epidemiology, finds that adults born during China’s famine in the 1950s and 1960s may have a greater risk of high blood sugar levels, which can lead to development of type 2 diabetes. The study adds more evidence to the association between fetal nutrition and risk of disease later in life. Hu is quoted in a Reuters article about the study.
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Obesity, Diabetes, Heart Disease – Harvard Public Health Review website
