title: Body mass, wealth, and inequality in the 19th century: joining the debate surrounding equality and health.
abstract: We explore relationships among BMI variation, wealth, and inequality in the 19th century US. There was an inverse relationship between BMI and average state-level wealth and a small, inverse relationship with wealth inequality. After controlling for wealth and inequality, farmers had greater BMI values than workers in other occupations, and blacks had greater BMI values because of nutritional deprivation in utero.
authors.affiliation: University of Texas, Permian Basin, 4901 East University, Odessa, TX 79762, USA. carson_s@utpb.edu
authors.forename: Scott Alan
authors.initials: SA
authors.lastname: Carson
mesh_terms: D015992:Body Mass Index; D054624:Health Status Disparities; D049672:History, 19th Century; D006801:Humans; D007182:Income / Q000266:history* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D011329:Prisoners; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D014481:United States / Q000453:epidemiology