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Socioâeconomic position and height in early adulthood
To examine the relationship between socioâeconomic position and height in early adulthood.A representative probability sample of Australian householdsâ¦
I wonder why Redditors often go on a tangent and claim your studies are from a "small pool" or "biased" when this was from almost 10k people?A representative probability sample of Australian households (part of the 1995 National Health Survey). Data were collected by face‐to‐face interviews. Socio‐economic position was measured using occupation and family income. Participants comprised 9,577 Australian‐born males and females aged 20–24 (n=3,186), 25–29 (n=3,184), and 30–34 (n=3,207). Height was self‐reported and operationalised in terms of mean height and 'short’ stature (defined as 1 SD below mean height for each sex‐age subgroup).
Another fat-L for "Graded, positive associations were found between occupation, family income, and height for males and females in each age cohort. Among males, mean height differences between blue‐collar employees and professionals were 1.1 cm to 1.5 cm (depending on age‐cohort), and for females, 1.6 cm to 2.1 cm.
This is more interesting, since it hinges into familial status, which ofc we all can agree is to a degree heritable.The corresponding height differences for males and females living in the least and most affluent families were 1.6 cm to 2.3 cm, and 1.0 cm to 2.5 cm, respectively.
Matches up with a lot of what we see irl; by being tall you're just more likely to be born with a good face.
In my HS, the clique of popular, good looking kids from well-off families had a higher proportion of tallfags than other groups- coincidence?
So much for the "Estimates of mortality risk associated with short stature suggest that these height differences translate to about a 2–5% increased risk of death for the most disadvantaged groups Given that socio‐economic height differences in adulthood have their genesis in the formative stages of biological and social development, public health intervention efforts need to focus on early life exposures and environments.
Ah, good ole' "socio-economic" factors which as established, already hinge on looks, NTness, and thus genes.The greatest reduction in height inequalities, and by extension health inequalities, is likely to flow from macro‐level public policies to alleviate poverty and minimise the social and economic divide.
Scientists estimate that about 80 percent of an individual’s height is determined by the DNA sequence variations they have inherited, but which genes these changes are in and what they do to affect height are only partially understood.

Is height determined by genetics?: MedlinePlus Genetics
Inherited gene variants play a large role in determining height. Other factors like nutrition and health can also impact how tall a child will be as an adult.
We estimated that the heritability of height in our sample was 46%.
Estimating heritability of height without zygosity information for twins under five years in low- and middle-income countries: An application of normal finite mixture distribution models - PMC
Twin studies are widely used to estimate heritability of traits and typically rely on knowing the zygosity of twin pairs in order to determine variation attributable to genetics. Most twin studies are conducted in high resource settings. Large scale ...
