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International Journal of Epidemiology, Volume 33, Number 1, pp. 152-153
IJE vol.33 no.1 © International Epidemiological Association 2004; all rights reserved.

Special Theme: Perinatal and early-life influences on disease

Commentary: The relation of growth to socioeconomic deprivation

Susan Chinn and Roberto J Rona

Department of Public Health Sciences, King's College London, 5th Floor Capital House, 42 Weston Street, London SE1 3QD, UK. E-mail: sut.chinn@kcl.ac.uk

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In this issue of the International Journal of Epidemiology Wright and Parker present data from two cohorts born in Newcastle, England, 40 years apart.1 Birthweight and infant weight decreased with increasing deprivation as measured by the Townsend index in the 1987 cohort, but there was no relation of birthweight or infant weight to social class in the 1947 cohort. This contrast was attributed by the authors to changes in the relation of smoking to social class.

Their other finding, to which they give more prominence, was that of ‘no evidence of a changing influence of . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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