| Titre : | Forty years on : the effect of deprivation on growth in two Newcastle birth cohorts. Commentary : Perinatal and early-life influences on disease. (2004) |
| Auteurs : | Charlotte-M WRIGHT ; Susan CHINN ; Louise PARKER ; Roberto-J RONA ; King's College London. Department of Public Health Sciences. London. GBR |
| Type de document : | Article |
| Dans : | International journal of epidemiology (vol. 33, n° 1, 2004) |
| Pagination : | 147-153 |
| Langues: | Anglais |
| Mots-clés : | Pauvreté ; Développement staturopondéral ; Naissance ; Poids naissance ; Nourrisson ; Homme ; Enfant ; Alimentation ; Europe sociale ; Facteur socioéconomique ; Angleterre ; Grande Bretagne ; Royaume Uni ; Europe ; Malnutrition |
| Résumé : | [BDSP. Notice produite par INIST-CNRS N3gUR0xT. Diffusion soumise à autorisation]. Background : This study used two prospective birth cohort studies from the same city to examine the extent to which deprivation gradients for height and weight have changed over 40 years. Methods : Participants were 954 (86%) full term members of the Thousand Families (TF) 1947 and 3145 (99.9%) members of the Growth and Development Study (GDS) 1987-1988 Newcastle birth cohorts with both deprivation and growth data. Weights were available at birth, 6 months, and 1 year ; weight and height at 4 (GDS only), 9, and 13 years (TF only), and in adulthood (TF only). These were stratified by level of deprivation, measured by Registrar's General social class in 1947 and area-based Townsend scores in 1987. Results : Both cohorts had similar birth and infancy weights, but there was no gradient by deprivation level at birth or in infancy in the 1947 cohort, while the 1987 cohort showed a consistent gradient from birth onwards. Height had increased from the 1947 to the 1987 cohort, but both showed very similar deprivation gradients, equivalent to a 4-cm difference between the most and least affluent strata at age 9 years. Body mass index was similar for both cohorts and only showed a deprivation gradient in adulthood. Conclusions : We found no evidence of a changing influence of socioeconomic deprivation on growth in childhood, despite increases in mean height over a 40-year interval. |
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