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标题：Stature in adults as an indicator of socioeconomic inequalities in Mexico
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作者：Castro-Porras, Lilia V. ; Rojas-Russell, Mario E. ; Aedo-Santos, Ángeles 等
期刊名称：Revista Panamericana de Salud Pública
印刷版ISSN：1020-4989
出版年度：2018
卷号：42
页码：e29
DOI：10.26633/rpsp.2018.29
语种：English
出版社：Organización Panamericana de la Salud
摘要：Objective To estimate the association between stature in Mexican adults and some sociodemographic factors. Methods We studied a sample of 30 970 subjects, using anthropometric data from the 2012 National Health and Nutrition Survey (ENSANUT 2012). The first quartile was used as the cutoff to define short stature. We analyzed differences among stature strata for sociodemographic variables by using the Kruskal-Wallis test. We estimated odds ratios to measure the association between stature and sociodemographic variables, controlling for potential confounders. Results Persons from the southern region of the country were some three times as likely to be of short stature than were subjects in the northern region. The stature difference between the Mexican states with the highest and the lowest average stature was larger than the average difference in stature between Mexico and the United States of America. Adults who had had less than six years of schooling presented the highest prevalence of short stature, regardless of sex, region of the country, place of residence (rural or urban), or the proportion of indigenous language speakers in a state. In addition, the stratum with the highest marginalization (percentage of the population lacking education and services, with a low income, and living in a small community) showed the highest prevalence of short stature. Conclusion In Mexico, adults who are of short stature have unequal living conditions when compared to those of average or high stature, and this could drive increases in health inequity.
关键词：Socioeconomic factors;body height;adult;indigenous population;Mexico