Sohn Kitae
Department of Economics, Konkuk University. 120 Neungdong-ro. Gwangjin-gu, Seoul, 05029, South Korea; School of Economics and Finance, Curtin University, GPO Box U1987, Perth, WA, 6845, Australia.
Econ Hum Biol. 2017 Nov;27(Pt A):74-83. doi: 10.1016/j.ehb.2017.04.007. Epub 2017 May 8.
There is growing interest in the influence of early-life conditions on the development of disease. Among diseases in adulthood, hypertension is particularly important for the developing world because considerably more people there are and will be afflicted with the disease than in the developed world and hypertensives there are often unaware of their disease status. We employed height as a proxy for the influence of early-life conditions and estimated the relation between height and hypertension status in Indonesia. We analysed 9,597 men and 10,143 women, aged 25-70. We employed a linear probability model to relate height to hypertension status by sex and age. When we controlled for an array of covariates, a 10cm increase in height was related to an approximately 7% point reduction in the likelihood of being hypertensive for both men and women. This is about a quarter of the prevalence of hypertension in Indonesia. This relation was linear and stronger among older individuals. In addition, the pre- and post-pubertal environments (measured by leg and trunk lengths, respectively) contributed similarly to hypertension. Further evidence suggests that women are more likely to be hypertensive at older ages because they are on average shorter than men.
人们越来越关注早期生活条件对疾病发展的影响。在成人疾病中，高血压对发展中世界尤为重要，因为与发达国家相比，那里有更多的人现在和将来会患这种疾病，而且那里的高血压患者往往不知道自己的病情。我们用身高来代表早期生活条件的影响，并估计了印度尼西亚身高与高血压状况之间的关系。我们分析了9597名男性和10143名年龄在25至70岁之间的女性。我们采用线性概率模型按性别和年龄将身高与高血压状况联系起来。当我们控制一系列协变量时，身高每增加10厘米，男性和女性患高血压的可能性就会降低约7个百分点。这约为印度尼西亚高血压患病率的四分之一。这种关系是线性的，在老年人中更强。此外，青春期前和青春期后的环境（分别用腿长和躯干长度衡量）对高血压的影响相似。进一步的证据表明，女性在老年时患高血压的可能性更大，因为她们的平均身高比男性矮。
