Height, Socioeconomic and Subjective Well-Being Factors among U.S. Women, Ages 49–79

Wyshak, Grace

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0096061

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“…Castaño et al (4) did not find a relation between education and stature in Colombians. The Wyshak study (34) did not find a significant association between stature and income or education in a group of women between 49 and 79 years old in the United States.…”

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Stature in adults as an indicator of socioeconomic inequalities in Mexico

Castro-Porras

Rojas-Russell

Aedo-Santos

et al. 2018

Rev Panam Salud Publica

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Objective To estimate the association between stature in Mexican adults and some sociodemographic factors. Methods We studied a sample of 30 970 subjects, using anthropometric data from the 2012 National Health and Nutrition Survey (ENSANUT 2012). The first quartile was used as the cutoff to define short stature. We analyzed differences among stature strata for sociodemographic variables by using the Kruskal-Wallis test. We estimated odds ratios to measure the association between stature and sociodemographic variables, controlling for potential confounders. Results Persons from the southern region of the country were some three times as likely to be of short stature than were subjects in the northern region. The stature difference between the Mexican states with the highest and the lowest average stature was larger than the average difference in stature between Mexico and the United States of America. Adults who had had less than six years of schooling presented the highest prevalence of short stature, regardless of sex, region of the country, place of residence (rural or urban), or the proportion of indigenous language speakers in a state. In addition, the stratum with the highest marginalization (percentage of the population lacking education and services, with a low income, and living in a small community) showed the highest prevalence of short stature. Conclusion In Mexico, adults who are of short stature have unequal living conditions when compared to those of average or high stature, and this could drive increases in health inequity.

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Stature in adults as an indicator of socioeconomic inequalities in Mexico

Castro-Porras

Rojas-Russell

Aedo-Santos

et al. 2018

Rev Panam Salud Publica

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“…This format, a lower score being indicative of more pain, was used to remain consistent with prior usage in WHI (Rubin et al., ; Wyshak, ).…”

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Relationship of pain and ancestry in African American women

Robbins

Garcı́a

et al. 2015

European Journal of Pain

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Background African Americans are reported to be more sensitive to pain than European Americans. Pain sensitivity has been shown to be genetically linked in animal models and is likely to be in humans. Methods 11,239 self-identified African American post menopausal women enrolled in the Women’s Health Initiative had percentage African ancestry determined by ancestry informative markers, “Pain Construct” measurements and covariate information. They answered 5 questions about specific types and location of pain, such as joint, neck, low back, headache, and urinary. They also answered 2 questions which were used to derive a “Pain Construct”, a measure of general pain scored on a scale of 1 to 100. Associations were tested in linear regression models adjusting for age, self-reported medical conditions, neighborhood socio-economic status, education, and depression. Results In the unadjusted model of the 5 specific types of pain measures, greater pain perception was associated with a higher proportion of African ancestry. However, some of the specific types of pain measures were no longer associated with African ancestry after adjustment for other study covariates. The Pain Construct was statistically significantly associated with African ancestry in both the unadjusted [Beta = −0.132, 95% confidence interval (C I) = −099 – −0.164; r = −0.075, 95% CI −0.056 – −0.093] and the adjusted models (Beta = −0.069 95% CI = −0.04 – 0.10). Conclusions Greater African ancestry was associated with higher levels of self-reported pain although this accounted for only a minor fraction of the overall variation in the Pain Construct.

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“…150,163 Tall people, however, are also more likely to report stress and anger and, for women, worry. 150 Most of the associations between stature and these measures may be accounted for by income and education.…”

Section: Well-beingmentioning

confidence: 99%