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Height, Weight, And Fertility Among Participants Of The Third Harvard Growth Study, Eugenie Scott, Carl J. Bajema
Height, Weight, And Fertility Among Participants Of The Third Harvard Growth Study, Eugenie Scott, Carl J. Bajema
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The relationship between weight, height, weigh/height2 and fertility is examined in 610 females and 621 males from a 1968 follow-up study of the Third Harvard Growth Study participants. These subjects were born between 1912 and 1918 in the USA. Their physical and mental growth were studies for up to 12 years while they attended public schools in Boston Massachusetts, area. Height is not significantly related to fertility in either females or males, but weight and weight/height2 is positively related to fertility in females (r = +.117 and + .100 respectively) and weight/height2 is positively related to fertility …