Did you know your height and
weight could affect your income
Men who are shorter in height and women who are obese are
more likely to be socio-economically deprived with lower levels of education,
occupation, and income, suggests new research. ‘These data support evidence
that height and BMI play
an important partial role in determining several aspects of a person’s
socio-economic status, especially women’s BMI (body mass index) for income and
deprivation and men’s height for education, income, and job class,’ said lead
researcher Timothy Frayling, professor at University of Exeter in Britain. The
findings were reported in the journal BMJ. The researchers tested
whether genetic variants influencing height or BMI play a direct (causal) role
in socio-economic status. They analysed genetic variants with known effects on
height and body mass index from 119,000 individuals aged between 40 and 70 in
the Britain’s Biobank — a database of biological information from half a
million British adults — using a technique called Mendelian randomisation.
Five measures of socio-economic status were assessed — age
at the time of completing schooling, degree level education, job class, annual
household income, and Townsend deprivation index (a recognised social
deprivation score). Analyses were repeated separately for men and women, the
researchers maintained. ‘These findings have important social and health
implications, supporting evidence that overweight people, especially women, are
at a disadvantage and that taller people, especially men, are at an advantage,’
the researchers concluded.
Source: www.thehealthsite.com
10.03.2016
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