Family social characteristics related to physical growth of young children.

Christiansen, N; Mora, José O.; Herrera, M G

doi:10.1136/jech.29.2.121

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“…Studies in the 1950s showed children were taller on average where the skill level of the father was greater (Acheson & Hewitt, 1954;Douglas & Blomfield, 1958). More recent work has confirmed these findings with statistically significant differences in mean height between social classes at most ages tested (Tanner, 1962;Christiansen, Mora & Herrera, 1975;Neligan & Prudham, 1976;Davie, Butler & Goldstein, 1972;Collins & Weiner, 1977;Topp et al, 1970;Miller et al, 1960). In general, the results show a steady downward gradient in mean height from social class I to social class V. Social class differences in height have also been reported from France (Schreider, 1964), Belgium (Cliquet, 1968) and other populations (Eveleth & Tanner, 1976, 1990.…”

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Biosocial influences on stature: a review

Mascie‐Taylor

1991

J. Biosoc. Sci.

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Biosocial influences on stature: a review

Mascie‐Taylor

1991

J. Biosoc. Sci.

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“…It is hypothesized that exposures similar to those associated with household crowding explain the findings for stature; for example, sharing a bedroom (which will not always be captured by the crowding variable) may result in disturbed sleep and slowed growth, whilst also altering patterns of exposure to microorganisms. Greater household crowding has been associated with reduced physical growth . Growth hormone and other factors relevant to development in childhood are secreted during deep sleep , and frequently disrupted sleep in more crowded households is a putative explanation.…”

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Characteristics in childhood and adolescence associated with future multiple sclerosis risk in men: cohort study

Gunnarsson

Udumyan

Bahmanyar

et al. 2015

Euro J of Neurology

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Background and purposeAssociations with multiple sclerosis (MS) of living conditions in childhood and characteristics in adolescence including physical fitness, cognitive function and psychological stress resilience were investigated.MethodsA cohort of male Swedish residents born 1952–1956 who were included in the Swedish Military Conscription Register was used to create a nested case−control study comprising 628 MS cases and 6187 controls matched on birth year, county of residence and vital status at time of diagnosis. Conscription examination records were linked with other national register data. Conditional logistic regression was used to evaluate associations with MS subsequent to the conscription examination.Results and conclusionsMen with MS were less likely to be from more crowded households in childhood (>two persons per room) with an adjusted odds ratio of 0.67 (95% confidence interval 0.51–0.86, P = 0.023). They had lower physical working capacity in adolescence with adjusted odds ratio of 0.94 (95% confidence interval 0.89–0.99, P = 0.026). Cognitive function and stress resilience scores displayed no significant differences between cases and controls. Parental occupation in childhood and body mass index in adolescence were not associated with future MS risk. The inverse association of MS risk with higher levels of household crowding may reflect environmental factors such as the pattern of exposure to microorganisms. Lower physical fitness in men at MS risk may indicate a protective effect of exercise or could be due to prodromal disease activity, although there was no association with cognitive function. Poor psychological stress resilience (and thus risk of chronic stress arousal) was not associated with MS.

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“…This study confirms that glucocorticosteroids or asthma significantly retard linear growth, and that the combination of the two may significantly increase the degree of growth retardation. Genetic (Garn & Rohmann, 1966) and socio-economic (Acheson & Fowler, 1964;Christiansen, Mora & Herrera, 1975) factors may have an important effect on children's linear growth; however, these factors were controlled for in the comparison of our subjects with their parents and siblings. Thus, it appears that genetic and socio-economic factors played no role in the linear growth retardation of our asthmatic children.…”

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Linear growth of chronic asthmatic children: the effects of the disease and various forms of steroid therapy

Chang

Miklich

Barwise

et al. 1982

Clin Experimental Allergy

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The elTects of asthma per .se and of various oral steroid-treatment schedules on linear growth in 231 children with chronic severe asthma (6'2-l6-2 years of age) were evaluated.Asthmatic children who had never received steroids, and those who received occasional steroids, had comparable growth retardation, averaging approximately 1 standard deviation (s.d.) below their age-and sex-spccific predicted means. Children who had been treated for 2 years or longer with alternate-day or daily steroids also did not differ from each other, with both groups averaging approximately 2 s.d. below their predicted means. Growth stunting, intermediate in severity, was found in children treated with frequent intermittent steroids. For groups with steroid medicationhistories of never, occasional, intermittent, alternate-day and daily, the percentage of children with 2 or more s.d. below their predicted heights were 25, 17-4. 28, 50 and 45-5 respectively. The duration and dosage of daily steroid-treatment correlated positively with severity of growth retardation. In addition to norms, the children were also compared with a healthy, same-sex sibling and with predictions from their parents" heights. Regardless of the comparison used, the results were similar. Since genetic and socio-economic factors are controlled by the latter two comparisons, the data indicate that these factors played no role in growth retardation in these children. Growth relardation in asthma appears to be due lo the disease itself, and is accelerated by steroid therapy.

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Family social characteristics related to physical growth of young children.

Cited by 18 publications

References 10 publications

Biosocial influences on stature: a review

Biosocial influences on stature: a review

Characteristics in childhood and adolescence associated with future multiple sclerosis risk in men: cohort study

Linear growth of chronic asthmatic children: the effects of the disease and various forms of steroid therapy

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