Association between body height and month of birth among women of European origin in northern and southern hemispheres.

The purpose of this study was to examine the potential association between month of birth and body height among women in northern and southern hemispheres. Body heights of adult women of European origin born between 1935 and 1981 who lived in Poland (N = 3,933) and in Australia (N = 1,118) were examined in relation to month of birth by analysis of variance. No association between month of birth and body height was observed in either Polish or Australian women. For Polish women, a clear, statistically significant secular trend in body height was confirmed for the analyzed period (P < .0001). No such trend occurred among the Australian women. Results do not confirm a significant association between month of birth and adult body height in women. It is, however, important to see a difference in secular trends, which was large in Polish women and nonexistent in Australian females. © 2017 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.

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Iwona Rosset, Elżbieta Żądzińska, Dominik Strapagiel, Agnieszka Grzelak, Maciej Henneberg. Association between body height and month of birth among women of European origin in northern and southern hemispheres. American journal of human biology : the official journal of the Human Biology Council. 2017 May 06;29(3)

PMID: 28094888

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