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This book studies the relation between aberrant growth adult diseases and human capital and recommends growth monitoring as a tool for human capital development the growth in the first two years after birth is crucial it contributes to better schooling adult stature income generation and birth weight in the next generation. 9789386446855 adult health and human capital impact of birth weight and childhood growth santosh k bhargava sage 2018 285 pages 5999. This book studies the relation between aberrant growth adult diseases and human capital and recommends growth monitoring as a tool for human capital development the growth in the first two years after birth is crucial it contributes to better schooling adult stature income generation and birth weight in the next generation. Additionally the harmful effects of low birth weight on adult health are 27 times larger for those who were uninsured in childhood o among the poorest families income less than 15000 in 1997 dollars increasing income by 10000 lowers the probability of low weight birth by 218 percent. Specifically growth during the first 2 years of life is strongly associated with adult height but not with elevated blood pressure or glucose levels and growth later in childhood and through adolescence especially gains in weight is associated with increased risk for hypertension and impaired fasting glucose ifg 12 those analyses did