How changes in food availability affect subsequent generations

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For CVD it's change in food availability and consumption in your PATERNAL grand mother which modify your risk profile.

Table 2
Grandparents' childhood experience of drastic change in food availability, from one year to the next year, going from poor to good and good to poor by descendants' cardiovascular mortality*
	Poor to good	Poor to good	Good to poor	Good to poor
	Men	Women	Men	Women
Paternal grandfather	0.90 (0.45-1.80)	1.42 (0.64-3.14)	1.08 (0.29-4.00)	0.15 (0.02-1.41)
Patermal grandmother	0.54 (0.24-1.20)	1.62 (0.58-4.52)	0.86 (0.22-3.3)	21.27 (2.24-202.47)
Maternal grandfather	1.17 (0.58-2.35)	1.22 (0.46-3.23)	1.28 (0.31-5.34)	3.37 (0.59-19.22)
Maternal Grandmother	0.60 (0.24-1.49)	0.91 (0.30-2.75)	0.75 (0.22-2.58)	0.16 (0.02-1.32)
Index cases	151	151	126	126

*Associations are presented as Hazards ratios (HRs) with 95% confidence intervals (CIs 95%). The models are adjusted for birth cohort, mother´s literacy, father´s death before the index person attained 13 years of age. Bold numbers indicate significant associations, p<0 .05.="" p="">

Bygren et al.

Bygren et al. BMC Genetics 2014 15:12   doi:10.1186/1471-2156-15-12