Résumé :
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[BDSP. Notice produite par INIST-CNRS JR0xsmD7. Diffusion soumise à autorisation]. Objective : In developed western populations longer legs have been shown to be a marker of better early childhood conditions. In the first generations to experience the epidemiologic transition and associated economic development, epigenetic constraints on growth might preclude improved childhood conditions from increasing leg growth or height. Design, setting and participants : Multivariable linear regression was used to assess the association of parental growth environment, proxied by parental literacy, and childhood conditions, proxied by parental possessions, with leg length, sitting height and height in a cross-sectional sample from 2005-6 of 9998 Chinese people aged at least 50 years from phase 2 of the Guangzhou Biobank Cohort Study. Main results : Adjusted for age and sex, the association of childhood conditions with leg length and height varied with parental literacy (interaction p values
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