Likewise, subjects born prior to 1926 showed a greater percentage of affected skeleton cases (9.6 ± 8.01 vs. 7.06 ± 5.79; p = 0.001).
The purpose of this study was to determine the status of nasal airway and olfaction of adult subjects born with choanal atresia (CA).
Subjects born between 1965 and 1967 were categorized as being exposed to famine in early childhood.
Only subjects born in Norway were contacted by letter and invited to participate.
This corresponds to all subjects born in the population between the calendar time points c0-w and c1.
Accordingly, subjects born between 1971 and 1973 and after the transitional period were categorized as being unexposed to famine.
Subjects born during the time interval (c0-w, c1-w) are in the sequel indexed by k1, respectively subjects born during (c1-w, c0) are in the sequel indexed by k2, and finally, subjects born during the recruitment period (c0, c1) are indexed by k3.
The crude odds ratio for overweight (BMI>25) was significantly higher for the group exposed to fetal-infant famine in comparison to the subjects born after the famine.
Subjects born immediately after the surrender of Biafra were left uncategorized because of uncertainties in their exposure to famine and local variations in nutritional relief.
In addition, since subjects born in the transitional period were excluded, there was no late gestational overlap with famine in the unexposed group.
In this study we investigated the cortical representation of hand movements in subjects born without their upper limb below the elbow.
