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A Century of Trends in Adult Human Height Publisher Pubmed



Bentham J1 ; Di Cesare M1, 2 ; Stevens GA3 ; Zhou B1 ; Bixby H1 ; Cowan M3 ; Fortunato L1 ; Bennett JE1 ; Danaei G4 ; Hajifathalian K4 ; Lu Y4 ; Riley LM3 ; Laxmaiah A5 ; Kontis V1 Show All Authors
Authors
  1. Bentham J1
  2. Di Cesare M1, 2
  3. Stevens GA3
  4. Zhou B1
  5. Bixby H1
  6. Cowan M3
  7. Fortunato L1
  8. Bennett JE1
  9. Danaei G4
  10. Hajifathalian K4
  11. Lu Y4
  12. Riley LM3
  13. Laxmaiah A5
  14. Kontis V1
  15. Paciorek CJ6
  16. Riboli E1
  17. Ezzati M1, 7
  18. Abdeen ZA8
  19. Hamid ZA9
  20. Aburmeileh NM10
  21. Acostacazares B11
  22. Adams R12
  23. Aekplakorn W13
  24. Aguilarsalinas CA14
  25. Agyemang C15
  26. Ahmadvand A16
  27. Ahrens W17
  28. Alhazzaa HM18
  29. Alothman AR19
  30. Raddadi RA20
  31. Ali MM21
  32. Alkerwi A22
  33. Alvarezpedrerol M23
  34. Aly E21
  35. Amouyel P24
  36. Amuzu A25
  37. Andersen LB26
  38. Anderssen SA27
  39. Anjana RM28
  40. Aounallahskhiri H29
  41. Ariansen I30
  42. Aris T31
  43. Arlappa N5
  44. Arveiler D32
  45. Assah FK33
  46. Avdicova M34
  47. Azizi F35
  48. Babu BV5
  49. Bahijri S36
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  58. Batieha AM44
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  62. Romdhane HB48
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  64. Bernabeortiz A50
  65. Bernotiene G51
  66. Bettiol H52
  67. Bhagyalaxmi A53
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Authors Affiliations
  1. 1. Imperial College London, United Kingdom
  2. 2. Middlesex University, United Kingdom
  3. 3. World Health Organization, Switzerland
  4. 4. Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, United States
  5. 5. Indian Council of Medical Research, India
  6. 6. University of California, Berkeley, United States
  7. 7. WHO Collaborating Centre on NCD Surveillance and Epidemiology, United Kingdom
  8. 8. Al-Quds University, Palestine
  9. 9. Center for Diabetes and Endocrine Care, India
  10. 10. Birzeit University, Palestine
  11. 11. Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social, Mexico
  12. 12. The University of Adelaide, Australia
  13. 13. Mahidol University, Thailand
  14. 14. Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Medicas y Nutricion, Mexico
  15. 15. University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
  16. 16. Non-Communicable Diseases Research Center, Iran
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  228. 228. Tehran University of Medical Science, Iran
  229. 229. Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, United States
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  231. 231. University of Munster, Germany
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  243. 243. B P Koirala Institute of Health Sciences, Nepal
  244. 244. Institute of Tropical Medicine, Belgium
  245. 245. Tartu University Clinics, Estonia
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  251. 251. Medical University of Lodz, Poland
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  268. 268. University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
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  271. 271. Consejeria de Sanidad Junta de Castilla y Leon, Spain
  272. 272. Universidade do Porto, Portugal
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  279. 279. Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein, Brazil
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  298. 298. Isfahan Cardiovascular Research Center, Iran
  299. 299. University of Pecs, Hungary
  300. 300. Mulago Hospital, Uganda
  301. 301. University of Limpopo, South Africa
  302. 302. Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain
  303. 303. RCSI Dublin, Ireland
  304. 304. International Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, Poland
  305. 305. Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences, Iran
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  308. 308. University of Brescia, Italy
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  312. 312. Ulm University, Germany
  313. 313. Kobe University, Japan
  314. 314. Suraj Eye Institute, India
  315. 315. Helen Keller International, Cameroon
  316. 316. University of Pharmacy and Medicine of Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam
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  346. 346. Institut Universitari d’Investigacio en Atencio Primaria Jordi Gol, Spain
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Source: eLife Published:2016


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. © NCD Risk Factor Collaboration.