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The Impact of Urbanization on Stature and bmi in Poland
- Journal of Interdisciplinary History
- The MIT Press
- Volume 47, Number 3, Winter 2017
- pp. 359-379
- Article
- Additional Information
Analysis of the stature and body mass of men from the Kingdom of Poland who were drafted into the 1913/14 Russian army finds that Christians and Jews born in Warsaw were taller than their counterparts from small towns and villages. However, conscripts from Warsaw had less body mass than did conscripts from rural regions; the body mass index (