Men who are shorter in height and women who are obese are more likely to be socio-economically deprived with lower levels of education occupation and income suggests new research. These data support evidence that height and BMI play an important partial role in determining several aspects of a person's socio-economic status especially women's BMI (body mass index) for income and deprivation and men's height for education income and job class said lead researcher Timothy Frayling professor at University of Exeter in Britain. The findings were reported in the journal BMJ. The researchers tested whether genetic variants influencing height or BMI
