Rona R J, Swan A V, Altman D G
J Epidemiol Community Health (1978). 1978 Sep;32(3):147-54. doi: 10.1136/jech.32.3.147.
In 1972 the height of 7601 children aged five to 11.5 years in England and of 2214 in Scotland was measured. Their parents were asked to complete a questionnaire to provide social and antrhopometric information. A sequence of linear models was fitted to the data to assess the associations between social and biological factors and height. At the time of the study it was found that sibship size, father's social class, and his employment status all had a significant relationship with child's height; however, parents' height and child's birthweight both accounted for relatively more of the variance in child's height than father's social class and employment status. In England, sibship size significantly influenced the height of children of manual workers, but not that of nonmanual workers' children. In Scotland, sibship size was associated with height in all social groups. Surveillance and possibly intervention in a wide range of activities should be directed at socially more deprived groups; for example, in Social Class V, in which there are more large families and unemployment is more common.
1972年，对英格兰7601名5至11.5岁儿童以及苏格兰2214名儿童的身高进行了测量。研究人员要求他们的父母填写一份问卷，以提供社会和人体测量学信息。对这些数据拟合了一系列线性模型，以评估社会因素和生物学因素与身高之间的关联。在研究期间发现，家庭子女数量、父亲的社会阶层及其就业状况均与孩子的身高存在显著关系；然而，父母的身高和孩子的出生体重在孩子身高的方差解释中所占比例相对高于父亲的社会阶层和就业状况。在英格兰，家庭子女数量对体力劳动者子女的身高有显著影响，但对非体力劳动者子女的身高没有影响。在苏格兰，家庭子女数量与所有社会群体的身高都有关联。应该针对社会经济地位较低的群体对广泛的活动进行监测，并可能进行干预；例如，在社会阶层V中，大家庭较多且失业更为普遍。
