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The humidity vs. heat debate, and studying the lifetime impacts of famine

Science Magazine Podcast

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News Commentary, News, Science

4.2791 Ratings

🗓️ 8 August 2024

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Researchers debate if humidity makes heat more deadly, and finding excess diabetes cases in Ukrainian people that were born right after the 1930s famine First up this week, which is worse: the heat or the humidity? Staff writer Meredith Wadman joins host Sarah Crespi to talk about conflicting reports on the risk of increased mortality when humidity compounds heat, and how to resolve the debate in the field.     Next, LH Lumey, a professor of epidemiology at the Columbia University Medical Center, discusses what the catastrophe of a famine can teach us about the importance of maternal and fetal health for the long term. His work focuses on records of a 1930s Ukrainian famine painstakingly reconstructed by Ukrainian demographers after being obscured by the former Soviet Union. The famine records combined with newer data show that babies gestated during famine are more likely to acquire type 2 diabetes later in life.    This week’s episode was produced with help from Podigy.   About the Science Podcast   Authors: Sarah Crespi, Meredith Wadman    Episode page: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.z6yms94   About the Science Podcast: https://www.science.org/content/page/about-science-podcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Morgan State University, a Baltimore, Maryland Carnegie R2 doctoral research institution,

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offers more than 100 academic programs and awards degrees at the Bacclureate, Masters, and Doctoral

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Levels, is furthering their mission of growing the future leading the world.

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Morgan continues to address the needs and challenges of the modern urban environment.

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With a four-year quadrupling

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of research, more than a dozen new doctoral programs, and eight new National Centers of Excellence,

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Morgan is positioned to achieve Carnegie R1 designation in the next five years. To learn more about

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Morgan and their ascension to R1, visit morgan.edu slash research.

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This podcast is supported by the Icon School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, one of America's leading research medical schools.

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Icon Mount Sinai is the academic arm of the eight hospital Mount Sinai health system in New York City.

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It's consistently among the top recipients of NIH funding. Researchers at ICONMount Sinai have made breakthrough discoveries in many

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fields vital to advancing the health of patients, including cancer, COVID and long COVID,

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cardiology, neuroscience, and artificial intelligence.

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The Icon School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, we find a way.

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This is a science podcast for August 9th, 2024. I'm Sarah Crespi.

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First up, which is worse, the heat or the humidity?

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Staff writer Meredith Wadman is here to talk about conflicting reports on whether humidity

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actually makes heat more deadly and how to resolve the debate out there in the field.

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After that, we hear from researcher Bertie Lume. He's here to discuss what the catastrophe of a famine can teach us about how maternal and fetal health impacts us in the long term.

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His team looked at adults born right after the 1930s famine in Ukraine

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and demonstrated a strong connection between deprivation in the womb and acquiring type 2 diabetes later in life.

2:03.6

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