Letter
Long term mortality after starvation during the Leningrad siege: Authors' reply
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BMJ
2004;328:346.3
- Denny Vågerö, professor1,
- Dimitri Shestov, professor2,
- Rosaria Galanti, senior researcher3,
- Pär Sparén, senior researcher (Par.Sparen@meb.ki.se)4
- 1Centre for Health Equity Studies, CHESS, Stockholm University/Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
- 2Institute of Experimental Medicine, Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, St Petersburg, Russia
- 3Unit of Clinical Epidemiology, Department of Medicine, Karolinska Hospital, Stockholm
- 4Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm
EDITOR—Croft makes the point that children of fat parents would have had a better chance of surviving the Leningrad siege: obese parents would be more likely to survive and protect their children. This may not have been the case. One of us who survived the siege (DS) recollects a common impression that fat people were among the first to die. Observing Russian prisoners of war, Leyton found “a big well-built man standing …
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