Height and social class in middle-aged British men.
Height and social class in middle-aged British men.
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英国中年男性的身高和社会阶层。
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发表时间：
1988
影响因子：
6.3
通讯作者：
G. Wannamethee
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作者：
M. Walker;And A G SHAPER;G. Wannamethee
一项对英国24个城镇的7735名中年男子的研究表明，1919年至1939年出生的男子的平均身高逐渐增加。这对手工和非手工类都是如此，但两组的平均身高有很大差异，在这段时间内仍然相差很大。体力劳动者的身高要比非体力劳动者低20年。其他研究的数据表明，1960年之前出生的人仍然存在成年人身高的社会阶层差异。24个城镇之间平均身高的变化不如社会阶层之间平均身高的变化显著。在考虑了社会阶层和年龄之后，身高的“城镇效应”仍然存在。如果身高被认为是儿童时期社会经济状况的一个指标，那么英国社会阶层之间的成年身高差异似乎并没有缩小。
A study of 7735 middle-aged British men drawn from general practices in twenty-four towns shows that there has been a progressive increase in mean height in the men who were born between 1919 and 1939. This is true for both manual and non-manual classes, but the mean heights of the two groups are significantly different and remain widely separated over this period of time. Manual workers lag twenty years behind non-manual workers in their attained height. Data from other studies indicate that this social class difference in adult height is still present in those born up to 1960. The variation in mean height between the twenty-four towns is less marked than the variation in mean height between the social classes. After social class and age have been taken into account, a "town effect" on height is still present. If height is accepted as an indicator of socio-economic circumstances in childhood, then there is a difference in adult height between social class groups in Great Britain which does not appear to be diminishing.