Lacey K A, Parkin J M
Arch Dis Child. 1974 Jun;49(6):417-24. doi: 10.1136/adc.49.6.417.
This paper describes a community study of children who were born in 1960, 1961, and 1962, and who at the age of 10 years were of short stature but without evidence of organic disease. There was a tendency for the children to have low birthweights and delayed skeletal development, and most of their parents were short. In addition, the children scored poorly in tests of mental ability and attainment. Many of the children had been reared in poor social conditions and it is suggested that this played an important role in causing the short stature of at least one-third of the children.
本文描述了一项针对1960年、1961年和1962年出生的儿童的社区研究。这些儿童在10岁时身材矮小,但无器质性疾病迹象。这些儿童有低出生体重和骨骼发育延迟的倾向,且他们的父母大多身材矮小。此外,这些儿童在智力和学业测试中得分较低。许多儿童成长于贫困的社会环境中,有人认为这在至少三分之一儿童身材矮小的成因中起到了重要作用。