A century of trends in adult human height

eLife7.70
Volume: 5, Issue: 2016, Pages: 1 - 29
Published: Jul 26, 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...
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A century of trends in adult human height
Published Date
Jul 26, 2016
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Volume
5
Issue
2016
Pages
1 - 29
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