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IJE Advance Access originally published online on May 11, 2006
International Journal of Epidemiology 2006 35(3):663-664; doi:10.1093/ije/dyl087
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Commentary: The associations between height, cognition, and education and their relevance for health studies

Denny Vågerö* and Bitte Modin

CHESS, Centre for Health Equity Studies, Stockholm, Sweden

* Corresponding author. E-mail: denny.vagero@chess.su.se

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The study by Magnusson et al.1 very convincingly demonstrates a close association between height at 18 and achieved education among Swedish men. The taller a man is the more likely he is to go to university. The authors suggest that short people may be discriminated against in the school system. However, they have no empirical data concerning ‘discrimination’, consequently this conclusion is left hanging in the air.

Two questions emerge from this well-written paper:

  1. Why are achieved education and height linked to each other?
    • Is it due to characteristics of the school system or peer relations that discriminate against short individuals? Other research has suggested . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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