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A Person's Height Affects Their Perception of Their Quality Of Life
人的身高影响对生活质量的认知
Main Category: Public Health News
Article Date: 18 Oct 2007 - 2:00 PDT
Your height in adult life significantly affects your quality of life, with short people reporting worse physical and mental health than people of normal height. This large, peer reviewed study, which appears in Clinical Endocrinology, shows that adult height is linked to how good a person thinks their health is. Short people judge their state of health to be significantly lower than their normal height peers do.
人的身高在成年生活中显着影响其生活质量，与正常身高者比较，身高矮者报告了更差的身心健康状况。一项临床内分泌学的大规模回顾性学前教育的儿科检查研究显示，成人身高与其对健康程度的认知相关。矮身材者认为其健康状况明显差于同等正常者。
The data for this study came from the 2003 Health Survey for England, carried out by the UK Department of Health(1). In this survey, participants filled out a health-related quality of life (HRQoL) questionnaire and a nurse measured their height. Researchers, led by Senior Health Economist Torsten Christensen at Novo Nordisk A/S in Denmark, used this data to assess the relationship between height and HRQoL. A person's health-related quality of life refers to their perceived physical and mental health over time. The questionnaire does not measure how good a person's health actually is; it measures how good a person thinks their health is. The questionnaire examined five areas of well-being: mobility, self-care, usual activities, pain/discomfort, and anxiety/depression. The researchers controlled the results in the study for the effects of other well-known indicators of HRQoL such as age, gender, body weight, long-standing illness and social class. In total, this study used the results from 14 416 respondents.
这些数据来自于英国健康部门实施的2003年英格兰健康调查研究。在该调查中，被调查者须填写一份健康生存质量（HRQoL）调查表，并由一名护士测量其身高。丹麦诺和诺德公司高级健康经济师Torsten•克里斯滕森领导下的研究人员对这些数据进行分析以评估身高与健康生存质量的相关性。健康生存质量与人们对健康的理解随着时间变迁而变化相关。这些问卷没有测量一个人的健康状况事实上究竟如何，而调查其主观上对其健康程度的认识。问卷调查了健康的五个方面：运动、自我照顾、日常活动、疼痛/不适以及焦虑/抑郁。研究者将结果中常见的对能提示健康生存质量有影响的因素进行了校正，如年龄、性别、体重、长期的疾病以及社会阶层。总计，该研究分析了14,416位受访者的数据。
People in the shortest height category (men shorter than 162 cm and women shorter than 151 cm) reported they experience significantly lower HRQoL than people of normal height. Additionally, the shorter you are, the more pronounced this effect becomes. This means that a small increase in height has a much larger positive effect on a short person than it does on a person of normal height. The results predict that people who are of short stature could increase their HRQoL by 6.1% if their height was increased by 7 cm for men and 6 cm for women. This 6.1% difference in HRQoL is equivalent to the HRQoL benefits of losing 10-15 kg for an obese person (with a BMI greater than 30)(2).
最矮身高组（男性身高<162cm，女性身高<151cm）报告其健康生存质量明显低于正常身高组。此外，身高更矮，这种影响更加明显。这意味着，较之于正常身高者，身材矮者少量的身高增加将会使其对健康生存质量的认知产生更大的积极影响。这些结果提示，对于矮小身材者，若男性身高增长7cm、女性增长6cm，他们的健康生存质量将会增加6.1%。这6.1%的健康生存质量差异与肥胖者（体重指数大于30）体重降低10-15kg获益相当。
Short height in adult life can either be due to normal development or caused by a number of diseases such as growth hormone deficiency or Turner syndrome. Treatment with growth hormone to children with these conditions can increase their final adult height by approximately 4-10 cm depending on the underlying cause(3). Previous studies have not clearly established the impact of this increase in height upon patients' HRQoL. The results from this study show that any small increase to the height of short people can have a large positive impact upon how good they perceive their health to be when adult. HRQoL data combine physiological, physical and social well-being into one outcome measure. The results from this study may also be useful for health economic assessments (such as those used by the National Institute for Clinical Excellence) for calculating the benefits of treatments for short stature.
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