Poor growth prior to early childhood: decreased health and life-span in the adult.

@article{Clark1986PoorGP,
  title={Poor growth prior to early childhood: decreased health and life-span in the adult.},
  author={George Arthur Clark and Nicholas R. S. Hall and George John Armelagos and Gary A. Borkan and Manohar M. Panjabi and F. Todd Wetzel},
  journal={American journal of physical anthropology},
  year={1986},
  volume={70 2},
  pages={
          145-60
        }
}
Previous studies in animal populations have shown that stunted neural and thymolymphatic growth early in development may result in permanently impaired neural and immune function, decreased body growth, vertebral wedging, and decreased life-span. In the human adult, small vertebral neural canal (VNC) diameters may reflect early stunted neural and immune development and impaired function that leads to decreased health (inferred by greater vertebral wedging) and life-span in the adult. VNC, which… 
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