"Objectives: To study the relationship between history of child and adolescent labor, and age at beginning of work to height in the adult age, taken into the analysis socioeconomic variables and skin color. Methods: This is a community-based cross-sectional study carried out with a random one-stage area cluster sample of all households from the city of Aracaju, the capital of Sergipe state, northeast Brazil. The study population comprises 3,262 individuals from 18 to 65 years of age, paid or unpaid workers. Data was obtained in individual household interviews based on questionnaires. Child labor was defined as any paid job under 14 years of age. Multiple linear regression models were used to estimate the association between child and adolescent labor history and age of work onset to height."

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