Height and Weight Differences Between North and South Korea

Schwekendiek, Daniel

doi:10.1017/s002193200800299x

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“…59 This is exemplified by the greater height of children of Mayan immigrants in the United States as compared with Mayan children in Guatemala 69 or in the difference in height between the Koreas, where South Koreans, on average, are 13 cm taller than North Koreans. 70 There may, however, be a genetic component to some cross-country differences, with adaptation of height to different environments, most notably for Pygmy populations in isolated rainforests. 71 …”

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Adult height, nutrition, and population health

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Section: Between-vs Within-country Variation In Adult Heightmentioning

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Adult height, nutrition, and population health

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“…Moreover, even highly heritable traits can be strongly manipulated by the environment, so heritability has little if anything to do with controllability. For example, height is on the order of 90% heritable, yet North and South Koreans, who come from the same genetic background, presently differ in average height by a full 6 inches (Pak, 2004; Schwekendiek, 2008). …”

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Beyond Heritability

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Turkheimer

Gottesman

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Curr Dir Psychol Sci

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The heritability of human behavioral traits is now well established, due in large measure to classical twin studies. We see little need for further studies of the heritability of individual traits in behavioral science, but the twin study is far from having outlived its usefulness. The existence of pervasive familial influences on behavior means that selection bias is always a concern in any study of the causal effects of environmental circumstances. Twin samples continue to provide new opportunities to identify causal effects with appropriate genetic and shared environmental controls. We discuss environmental studies of discordant twin pairs and twin studies of genetic and environmental transactions in this context.

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“…In addition, in a study based on anthropometric data on North Korean pre-school children as measured by the North Korean government in collaboration with international humanitarian agencies, Schwekendiek (2009) found that South Korean children were on average 7 to 8 cm taller and 3 to 4 kg heavier than their Northern peers in 2002. In a meta-analysis on pre-school children using data collected inside North Korea in 1997 and 2002 and on North Korean refugee children arriving in South Korea from 2000 to 2007, reported that the South Korean children were on average 6 to 8 cm taller and 1 to 3 kg heavier than their North Korean counterparts.…”

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Biosocial Comparison of Mid-Upper Arm Circumference in the Two Koreas

Schwekendiek

2013

J. Biosoc. Sci.

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Anthropometric differences between the two Koreas are of considerable public and scientific interest given the unique socio-political status of North Korea and the fact that the nations share the same genetic ancestry. This study provides new biosocial evidence on these differences by analysing mid-upper arm circumference (MUAC) as a human welfare indicator. This is the first study to compare the nutritional status of adults surveyed inside North Korea with South Koreans. The MUAC measurements of 2793 North Korean women obtained through a household survey conducted in 2002 were compared with those of 1428 South Korean women surveyed around 2003. Comparative analysis was conducted by plotting centiles and calculating mean differences in MUAC by age. This paper finds that the MUAC of the South Koreans was on average 2.8 cm greater than that of their North Korean peers, with MUAC gaps ranging from 1.6 cm to 3.9 cm and becoming more pronounced with age. This research confirms previous studies on height and weight in the two Germanies and in the two Koreas that have shown that biosocial performance is worse in socialist economies as compared with free-market regimes.

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Height and Weight Differences Between North and South Korea

Cited by 54 publications

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Adult height, nutrition, and population health

Adult height, nutrition, and population health

Beyond Heritability

Biosocial Comparison of Mid-Upper Arm Circumference in the Two Koreas

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