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European Journal of Clinical Nutrition volume 75, pages 994–996 (2021)Cite this article

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Again, we are very glad to communicate with the researchers of Columbia University and Boston University, who represent the top thought in the field of human famine. We thank Chihua Li and Zhenwei Zhou for their helpful suggestion. We must describe the design and recruitment of the Suihua study more clearly in the future study, and we are planning to build a website to open source the data of the Suihua survey. We are also very interested in their points published in the Nat Rev Endocrinol [7]. Their concerns for the current researches in the field of the Chinese famine are important and thoughtful, which emphasize the importance of the study design for elucidating the real health impact of the Chinese famine. If possible, we hope they can give us more suggestions and guidance to design the Suihua survey in the future for providing more rigorous evidence in terms of the health impacts of famine, especially for the offspring.

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Fig. 1: Flow diagram of sampling method and experimental design.
Fig. 2: The grain production, rates of birth, death, and growth, and the excess death rate.

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Han, T., Sun, C. & Li, Y. Reply to ‘Chinese famine and metabolic syndrome: a longitudinal cohort study in Suihua China’. Eur J Clin Nutr 75, 994–996 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41430-021-00918-1

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