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A century of trends in adult human height

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article , Other literature type 26 Jul 2016 Turkey, Netherlands, Peru, Belgium, Spain, United Kingdom, United Kingdom, Poland, Sweden, Italy, United Kingdom, Brazil, Germany, Italy, France, United Kingdom, Finland, Belgium, United Kingdom, Netherlands, Cyprus, Sweden, Netherlands, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Denmark, Finland, Spain, Sweden, Italy, Malta, United Kingdom, Italy, Croatia, Italy, United Kingdom eLife Sciences Publications, LtdeLife, volume 5 (eissn: 2050-084X,

Authors: Bentham, James; Cesare, Mariachiara Di; Stevens, Gretchen A.; Zhou, Bin; Bixby, Honor; Cowan, Melanie J.; Fortunato, Lea; +267 Authors

Bentham, James; Cesare, Mariachiara Di; Stevens, Gretchen A.; Zhou, Bin; Bixby, Honor; Cowan, Melanie J.; Fortunato, Lea; Bennett, James E.; Danaei, Goodarz; Hajifathalian, Kaveh; Lu, Yuan; Riley, Leanne M.; Laxmaiah, Avula; Kontis, Vasilis; Paciorek, Christopher J.; Riboli, Elio; Ezzati, Majid; Abdeen, Ziad A.; Hamid, Zargar Abdul; Abu-Rmeileh, Niveen M.; Acosta-Cazares, Benjamin; Adams, Robert; Aekplakorn, Wichai; Aguilar-Salinas, Carlos A.; Agyemang, Charles; Ahmadvand, Alireza; Ahrens, Wolfgang; Al-Hazzaa, Hazzaa M.; Al-Othman, Amani Rashed; Raddadi, Rajaa Al; Ali, Mohamed M.; Alkerwi, Ala'a; Alvarez-Pedrerol, Mar; Aly, Eman; Amouyel, Philippe; Amuzu, Antoinette; Andersen, Lars Bo; Anderssen, Sigmund A.; Anjana, Ranjit Mohan; Aounallah-Skhiri, Hajer; Ariansen, Inger; Aris, Tahir; Arlappa, Nimmathota; Arveiler, Dominique; Assah, Felix K.; Avdicova, Maria; Azizi, Fereidoun; Babu, Bontha V.; Bahijri, Suhad; Balakrishna, Nagalla; Bandosz, Piotr; Banegas, Jose R.; Barbagallo, Carlo M.; Barcelo, Alberto; Barkat, Amina; Barros, Mauro V.; Bata, Iqbal; Batieha, Anwar M.; Batista, Rosangela L.; Baur, Louise A.; Beaglehole, Robert; Romdhane, Habiba Ben; Benet, Mikhail; Bennett, James E.; Bernabe-Ortiz, Antonio; Bernotine, Gailute; Bettiol, Heloisa; Bhagyalaxmi, Aroor; Bharadwaj, Sumit; Bhargava, Santosh K.; Bhatti, Zaid; Bhutta, Zulfiqar A.; Bi, HongSheng; Bi, Yufang; Bjerregaard, Peter; Bjertness, Espen; Bjertness, Marius B.; Bjorkelund, Cecilia; Blokstra, Anneke; Bo, Simona; Bobak, Martin; Boddy, Lynne M.; Boehm, Bernhard O.; Boeing, Heiner; Boissonnet, Carlos P.; Bongard, Vanina; Bovet, Pascal; Braeckman, Lutgart; Bragt, Marjolijn C. E.; Brajkovich, Imperia; Branca, Francesco; Breckenkamp, Juergen; Brenner, Hermann; Brewster, Lizzy M.; Brian, Garry R.; Bruno, Graziella; Bueno-de-Mesquita, H. B.; Bugge, Anna; Burns, C.; Leon, Antonio Cabrera de; Cacciottolo, Joseph; Cama, Tilema; Cameron, Christine; Camolas, Jose; Can, Gunay; Candido, Ana Paula C.; Capuano, Vincenzo; Cardoso, Viviane C.; Carlsson, Axel C.; Carvalho, Maria J.; Casanueva, Felipe F.; Casas, Juan-Pablo; Caserta, Carmelo A.; Chamukuttan, Snehalatha; Chan, Angelique W.; Chan, Queenie; Chaturvedi, Himanshu K.; Chaturvedi, Nishi; Chen, Chien-Jen; Chen, Fangfang; Chen, Huashuai; Chen, Shuohua; Chen, Y. Z.; Cheng, Ching-Yu; Chetrit, Angela; Chiolero, Arnaud; Chiou, Shu-Ti; Chirita-Emandi, Adela; Cho, Belong; Cho, Yumi; Christensen, Kaare; Chudek, Jerzy; Cifkova, Renata; Claessens, Frank; Clays, Els; Concin, Hans; Cooper, Cyrus; Cooper, Rachel; Coppinger, Tara C.; Costanzo, Simona; Cottel, Dominique; Cowell, Chris; Craig, Cora L.; Crujeiras, Ana B.; D'Arrigo, Graziella; d'Orsi, Eleonora; Dallongeville, Jean; Damasceno, Albertino; Damsgaard, Camilla T.; Danaei, Goodarz; Dankner, Rachel; Dauchet, Luc; Backer, Guy De; Bacquer, Dirk De; Gaetano, Giovanni de; Hanauw, Stefaan De; Smedt, Delphine De; Deepa, Mohan; Deev, Alexander D.; Dehghan, Abbas; Delisle, Helene; Delpeuch, Francis; Deschamps, Valerie; Dhana, Klodian; Castelnuovo, Augusto F. Di; Dias-da-Costa, Juvenal Soares; Diaz, Alejandro; Djalalinia, Shirin; Do, Ha T. P.; Dobson, Annette J.; Donfrancesco, Chiara; Donoso, Silvana P.; Doering, Angela; Doua, Kouamelan; Drygas, Wojciech; Dzerve, Vilnis; Egbagbe, Eruke E.; Eggertsen, Robert; Ekelund, Ulf; Ati, Jalila El; Elliott, Paul; Engle-Stone, Reina; Erasmus, Rajiv T.; Erem, Cihangir; Eriksen, Louise; Pena, Jorge Escobedo-de la; Evans, Alun; Faeh, David; Fall, Caroline H.; Farzadfar, Farshad; Felix-Redondo, Francisco J.; Ferguson, Trevor S.; Fernandez-Berges, Daniel; Ferrante, Daniel; Ferrari, Marika; Ferreccio, Catterina; Ferrieres, Jean; Finn, Joseph D.; Fischer, Krista; Monterrubio, Eric A.; Forslund, Ann-Sofie; Forsner, Maria; Franco, Oscar H.; Geleijnse, Johanna M.; Gudnason, Vilmundur; Hambleton, Ian R.; Hardy, Rebecca; Hwalla, Nahla; Jacobs, Jeremy M.; Jurak, Gregor; Kavousi, Maryam; Kelishadi, Roya; Krokstad, Steinar; Kuulasmaa, Kari; Kyobutungi, Catherine; Laamiri, Fatima Zahra; Laatikainen, Tiina; Lam, Tai Hing; Larijani, Bagher; Lin, Hsien-Ho; Linneberg, Allan; Lunet, Nuno; Malyutina, Sofia; Marques-Vidal, Pedro; Marrugat, Jaume; Mazur, Artur; Mbanya, Jean Claude N.; McNulty, Breige A.; Mediene-Benchekor, Sounnia; Meirhaeghe, Aline; Michaelsen, Kim F.; Molbo, Drude; Murphy, Neil; Musa, Kamarul Imran; Neovius, Martin; Osmond, Clive; Overvad, Kim; Pednekar, Mangesh S.; Peters, Annette; Pigeot, Iris; Pikhart, Hynek; Puiu, Maria; Raj, Manu; Ramke, Jacqueline; Ramos, Rafel; Rasmussen, Finn; Romaguera, Dora; Rui, Ornelas; Scazufca, Marcia; Schienkiewitz, Anja; Sen, Abhijit; Sibai, Abla M.; Smeeth, Liam; So, Hung-Kwan; Staessen, Jan A.; Stathopoulou, Maria G.; Staub, Kaspar; Stein, Aryeh D.; Stergiou, George S.; Tang, Xun; Tarp, Jakob; Thuesen, Betina H.; Ueda, Peter; Ulmer, Hanno; Vale, Susana; Herck, Koen Van; Minh, Hoang Van; Veronesi, Giovanni; Visvikis-Siest, Sophie; Walton, Janette; Whincup, Peter H.; Woo, Jean; Woodward, Mark; Zimmermann, Esther;

doi: 10.7554/elife.13410 , 10.17863/cam.36516

pmc: PMC4961475

pmid: 27458798

handle: 10316/41799 , 10451/24486 , 20.500.12866/5600 , 1854/LU-8076325 , 10400.22/9390 , 10400.26/19331 , 2433/218757 , 2433/244326 , 20.500.13003/10273 , 20.500.11820/d8ad2f53-170d-414d-87af-c15a2d3c004c

A century of trends in adult human height

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Abstract

Being taller is associated with enhanced longevity, and higher education and earnings. We reanalysed 1472 population-based studies, with measurement of height on more than 18.6 million participants to estimate mean height for people born between 1896 and 1996 in 200 countries. The largest gain in adult height over the past century has occurred in South Korean women and Iranian men, who became 20.2 cm (95% credible interval 17.5–22.7) and 16.5 cm (13.3–19.7) taller, respectively. In contrast, there was little change in adult height in some sub-Saharan African countries and in South Asia over the century of analysis. The tallest people over these 100 years are men born in the Netherlands in the last quarter of 20th century, whose average heights surpassed 182.5 cm, and the shortest were women born in Guatemala in 1896 (140.3 cm; 135.8–144.8). The height differential between the tallest and shortest populations was 19-20 cm a century ago, and has remained the same for women and increased for men a century later despite substantial changes in the ranking of countries.

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Microsoft Academic Graph classification: Biological sciences education.field_of_study Adult height South asia Population Human height education Quarter (United States coin) Cancer incidence Body mass index Demography

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Settore MED/09 - Medicina Interna, estatura corporal, Nutrition and Disease, Immunology and Microbiology (all), Epidemiology, none, [SDV]Life Sciences [q-bio], humanos, global health, medical research;, pituuskasvu, medical research, biological sciences; epidemiology; global health; medical research; none; nutrition, Voeding en Ziekte, Medicine and Health Sciences, Stature -- History -- 20th century, adults, Public health surveillance, Biology (General), POPULATION, aikuiset, height ; global ; trends, Human Nutrition & Health, biological sciences;, EVOLUÇÃO HUMANA, biological sciences, General Neuroscience, Q, Humane Voeding & Gezondheid, R, Public Health, Global Health, Social Medicine and Epidemiology, none;, Body size, General Medicine, adulto, Hälsovetenskaper, biological sciences; epidemiology; global health; medical research; none; nutrition; Adult; Global Health; Humans; Body Height; Neuroscience (all); Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (all); Immunology and Microbiology (all), epidemiology;, //purl.org/pe-repo/ocde/ford#3.01.03 [https], Biological sciences, nutrition, OF-THE-LITERATURE, Medicine, GROWTH, epidemiology, HEALTH, Public Health, Human, Research Article, global health;, trends, Adult, STATURE, QH301-705.5, Science, //purl.org/pe-repo/ocde/ford#1.06.03 [https], Stature, Tall, Global health, SECULAR CHANGES, General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, Epidemiology; Public Health, Medical research, Health Sciences, Journal Article, Life Science, Humans, VLAG, Nutrition, Neuroscience (all), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (all), General Immunology and Microbiology, biological science, Adult human height, //purl.org/pe-repo/ocde/ford#3.01.04 [https], CHILD UNDERNUTRITION, Body Height, trendit, BODY-MASS INDEX, Folkhälsovetenskap, global hälsa, socialmedicin och epidemiologi, korkeus, Epidemiology and Global Health, CANCER INCIDENCE, WEIGHT, height

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