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SUBMITTER: Jaadla H
PROVIDER: S-EPMC8516076 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Jaadla Hannaliis H Shaw-Taylor Leigh L Davenport Romola R
Population studies 20200929 3
Adult stature has become a widely used indicator of childhood nutritional status in historical populations and may provide insights into health inequalities that are not discernible in mortality rates. However, most pre-twentieth-century British data on heights suffer from selection biases. Here we present unique evidence on heights of adult males by occupation from an unbiased sample of adult males in Dorset in 1798-99. The mean height of fully grown (married) men was very similar to that of ol ...[more]