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A century of trends in adult human height

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Název: A century of trends in adult human height
Autoři: NCD Risk Factor Collaboration (NCD-RisC), Plans-Rubió, Pedro
Přispěvatelé: [Plans-Rubió P] Agència de Salut Pública de Catalunya, Departament de Salut, Generalitat de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain, Departament de Salut
Zdroj: Scientia
Informace o vydavateli: eLife Sciences Publications, 2024.
Rok vydání: 2024
Témata: NAMED GROUPS::Persons::Age Groups::Adult, Salut mundial, Medicina - Investigació, HEALTH CARE::Population Characteristics::Health::Global Health, PHENOMENA AND PROCESSES::Physiological Phenomena::Physiological Phenomena::Growth and Development::Growth::Body Size::Body Height, ATENCIÓN DE SALUD::Características de la Población::salud::salud global, FENÓMENOS Y PROCESOS::fenómenos fisiológicos::fenómenos fisiológicos::crecimiento y desarrollo::crecimiento::tamaño corporal::estatura corporal, Estatura - Investigació, DENOMINACIONES DE GRUPOS::personas::Grupos de Edad::adulto
Popis: 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.
Grand Challenges Canada and Wellcome Trust (101506/Z/13/Z)
Ciències biològiques; Salut global; Investigació mèdica
Ciencias biológicas; Salud global; Investigación médica
Biological sciences; Global health; Medical research
Druh dokumentu: Report
Popis souboru: application/pdf
Jazyk: English
DOI: 10.7554/elife.13410
Přístupová URL adresa: https://hdl.handle.net/11351/11418
Rights: CC BY
Přístupové číslo: edsair.od......3991..b9ae7fbbd4104fdea9ac156e24eb5e52
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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Abstrakt: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.<br />Grand Challenges Canada and Wellcome Trust (101506/Z/13/Z)<br />Ciències biològiques; Salut global; Investigació mèdica<br />Ciencias biológicas; Salud global; Investigación médica<br />Biological sciences; Global health; Medical research
DOI:10.7554/elife.13410