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IJE Advance Access originally published online on October 30, 2006
International Journal of Epidemiology 2006 35(6):1542-1543; doi:10.1093/ije/dyl230
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Commentary: Proportion not the cause of beauty but of health?

Barry Bogin

Department of Behavioral Sciences, University of Michigan-Dearborn, 4901 Evergreen Road, CB 4029, Dearborn, MI 48128, USA. E-mail: bbogin@umich.edu

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Body proportions have come of age in the medical and epidemiological research communities. The article in this issue by Ferrie et al.1 examines the association between leg length and trunk length to coronary heart disease (CHD) in the latest phase of the Whitehall II study, a prospective survey of the health of British civil servants. This is one of many studies published in the last decade to focus on the length of body segments in relation to health.2,3 Decomposing stature into its major . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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