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Table 2 Associations between height and intelligence in childhood, in older age, and from childhood to older age

From: Associations among height, body mass index and intelligence from age 11 to age 78 years

Predictor

Outcome

N

Predictor

Sex

Interaction

β

p

β

p

β

p

Childhood height

Childhood MHT

375

.23

***

.11

.02

-.05

.32

Older-age height

Older-age NART

358

.29

**

.24

***

-.03

.58

Older-age RSPM

356

.21

.01

.03

.73

.06

.25

Childhood height

Older-age height

396

.47

***

-.73

***

-.06

.01

Childhood MHT

Older-age NART

342

.68

***

-.05

.23

.02

.58

Older-age RSPM

341

.42

***

-.19

***

.07

.17

Childhood height

Older-age NART

341

.20

***

.02

.72

-.01

.87

Older-age RSPM

339

.14

.01

-.15

**

.04

.50

Childhood MHT

Older-age height

392

.12

**

-.74

***

.02

.62

  1. MHT Moray House Test, NART National Adult Reading Test, RSPM Raven’s Standard Progressive Matrices. Statistics reported are standardised β coefficients and uncorrected p values derived from generalised linear models. All variables were residualised over age at measurement before modelling. Although variables are modelled as ‘predictor’ and ‘outcome’ variables, direction of causation is not implied, particularly for contemporaneous associations. Significant results at p < .05 are highlighted in bold; ** p < .01; *** p < .001