Crimmins Eileen M, Soldo Beth J, Kim Jung Ki, Alley Dawn E
Leonard Davis School of Gerontology, Andrus Gerontology Center, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0191, USA.
Soc Biol. 2005 Fall-Winter;52(3-4):164-77. doi: 10.1080/19485565.2005.9989107.
Anthropometric measures including height provide an indication of childhood health that allows exploration of relationships between early life circumstances and adult health. Height can also be used to provide some indication of how early life health is related to selection of migrants and the Hispanic paradox in the United States. This article joins information on persons of Mexican nativity ages 50 and older in the United States collected in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey IV (NHANES IV 1999-2002) with a national sample of persons of the same age living in Mexico from the Mexican Health and Aging Survey (MHAS 2001) to examine relationships between height, education, migration, and late-life health. Mexican immigrants to the United States are selected for greater height and a high school, rather than higher or lower, education. Return migrants from the United States to Mexico are shorter than those who stay. Height is related to a number of indicators of adult health. Results support a role for selection in the Hispanic paradox and demonstrate the importance of education and childhood health as determinants of late-life health in both Mexico and the United States.
包括身高在内的人体测量指标能反映儿童时期的健康状况，有助于探究早年生活环境与成年后健康之间的关系。身高还可用于说明早年健康状况与移民选择以及美国的西班牙裔悖论之间的联系。本文将美国国家健康与营养检查调查IV（NHANES IV，1999 - 2002年）收集的50岁及以上墨西哥出生的美国人的信息，与墨西哥健康与老龄化调查（MHAS，2001年）中居住在墨西哥的同年龄段全国样本相结合，以研究身高、教育、移民和晚年健康之间的关系。移民到美国的墨西哥人身高更高，且接受的是高中教育，而非更高或更低水平的教育。从美国返回墨西哥的移民比留在墨西哥的人身高更矮。身高与成年后健康的多项指标相关。研究结果支持了选择因素在西班牙裔悖论中的作用，并证明了教育和儿童时期健康作为墨西哥和美国晚年健康决定因素的重要性。
