Objective: We use the complete set of NHES and NHANES data collected between 1959 and 2004 in order to construct trends … gain apparent among whites but not among blacks. The relationship between height and income and between height and … health-care system, as well as the relatively weak welfare safety net might be the reason why human growth in the United …

Objective: We use the complete set of NHES and NHANES data collected between 1959 and 2004 in order to construct trends … gain apparent among whites but not among blacks. The relationship between height and income and between height and … health-care system, as well as the relatively weak welfare safety net might be the reason why human growth in the United …

North American counterparts. The height gap between the rich and poor was the greatest in England, reaching 22 cm at age 16 … discovered, while the English rich were the tallest in their time: only 2.5 cm shorter than today's US standards. Height of the … the height of the wealthy tended rather to increase until the 1840s and then levelled off. …

geographic correlates of height such as local poverty rate, median income, and population density. We find that after adjusting … for variables known to influence height such as income and education, population density is negatively correlated with … height among white men, but only marginally among white women. Similar analysis of Body Mass Index (BMI) also shows a …

. Women's BMIs decreased throughout the late 19th and early 20th centuries, which may have implications for the health and …