Growing years cut short for toddlers from poor families
Thursday, January 22, 2009 - 15:21
in Psychology & Sociology
Continuous poverty during toddler years can curb the height of children by the time they reach kindergarten, even in industrialised countries, according to new research from the Universite de Montreal. Regardless of hereditary factors such as maternal height and education level, according to the finding published in the Journal of Epidemiology Community Health, children from poor families are more likely to be shorter than their peers. The study was authored by Zephyre Ehounoux, a Master's student at the Universite de Montreal's Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, and directed by Professors Maria-Victoria Zunzunegui, Louise Seguin, Lise Gauvin and researcher Beatrice Nikiema...