Researchers said on the 22nd, in a study conducted in India found that mothers of short stature child birth mortality rate than the previous five-year-old tall mother of the children born to a high 70%.

study analyzed a total of 50,000 children found that height of 1.45 meters lower than the mothers of children under five years ago gave birth to more than 1.60 meters in height above the mother gave birth to the child mortality rate higher than 70 %.

researchers said, is to show women's overall health status and childhood nutritional status of women is relatively short stature in adulthood may be a poor state of health. In addition, the smaller the uterus of women during pregnancy may be more complications.

to participate in the study of the Harvard School of Public Health SVSubramanian said: "Studies show that children, especially for investment in girls is crucial, because not only their own benefit, whether in the childhood or when they are grown up, the benefit of their descendants still. "

study published in this week's" Journal of the American Medical Association ", the article points out that in 2006, more than two million age under-five child deaths in India, as the highest in the world.