A century of trends in adult human height

Trends in adult body-mass index in 200 countries from 1975 to 2014: a pooled analysis of 1698 population-based measurement studies with 19·2 million participants

(2016)   LANCET

The effects of height and BMI on prostate cancer incidence and mortality: a Mendelian randomization study in 20,848 cases and 20,214 controls from the PRACTICAL consortium

(2015) Neil M. Davies et al.   CANCER CAUSES & CONTROL

Adult height, coronary heart disease and stroke: a multi-locus Mendelian randomization meta-analysis

(2015) Eveline Nüesch et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF EPIDEMIOLOGY

Short Maternal Stature Increases Risk of Small-for-Gestational-Age and Preterm Births in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: Individual Participant Data Meta-Analysis and Population Attributable Fraction

(2015) et al.   JOURNAL OF NUTRITION

Height and Breast Cancer Risk: Evidence From Prospective Studies and Mendelian Randomization

(2015) Ben Zhang et al.   JNCI-Journal of the National Cancer Institute

Genetically Determined Height and Coronary Artery Disease

(2015) Christopher P. Nelson et al.   NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE

Does natural selection favour taller stature among the tallest people on earth?

(2015) G. Stulp et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Height and Breast Cancer Risk: Evidence From Prospective Studies and Mendelian Randomization

(2015) Ben Zhang et al.   JNCI-Journal of the National Cancer Institute

Secular Trends in Height in Different States of India in Relation to Socioeconomic Characteristics and Dietary Intakes

(2015) Raja Sriswan Mamidi et al.   FOOD AND NUTRITION BULLETIN

Accuracy of Self-Reported Versus Measured Weight Over Adolescence and Young Adulthood: Findings From the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, 1996-2008

(2014) P. Clarke et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF EPIDEMIOLOGY

The role of nutrition and genetics as key determinants of the positive height trend

(2014) P. Grasgruber et al.   Economics & Human Biology

The growth hormone receptor exon 3 polymorphism is not associated with height or metabolic traits in healthy young adults

(2014) Clarissa S. Martins et al.   GROWTH HORMONE & IGF RESEARCH

Women, children, and adolescents: the post-2015 agenda

(2014) The Lancet   LANCET

Bayesian Estimation of Population-Level Trends in Measures of Health Status

(2014) Mariel M. Finucane et al.   STATISTICAL SCIENCE

Associations of linear growth and relative weight gain during early life with adult health and human capital in countries of low and middle income: findings from five birth cohort studies

(2013) Linda S Adair et al.   LANCET

Adult height and the risk of cause-specific death and vascular morbidity in 1 million people: individual participant meta-analysis

(2012) et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF EPIDEMIOLOGY

Trends in mild, moderate, and severe stunting and underweight, and progress towards MDG 1 in 141 developing countries: a systematic analysis of population representative data

(2012) Gretchen A Stevens et al.   LANCET

The world’s tallest nation has stopped growing taller: the height of Dutch children from 1955 to 2009

(2012) Yvonne Schönbeck et al.   PEDIATRIC RESEARCH

Genetic and Environmental Contributions to Weight, Height, and BMI from Birth to 19 Years of Age: An International Study of Over 12,000 Twin Pairs

(2012) Lise Dubois et al.   PLoS One

In denial: Misperceptions of weight change among adults in the United States

(2012) Catherine M. Wetmore et al.   PREVENTIVE MEDICINE

Recent progress in the study of the genetics of height

(2011) Guillaume Lettre   HUMAN GENETICS

National, regional, and global trends in systolic blood pressure since 1980: systematic analysis of health examination surveys and epidemiological studies with 786 country-years and 5·4 million participants

(2011) Goodarz Danaei et al.   LANCET

Height and cancer incidence in the Million Women Study: prospective cohort, and meta-analysis of prospective studies of height and total cancer risk

(2011) Jane Green et al.   LANCET ONCOLOGY

Height of Nations: A Socioeconomic Analysis of Cohort Differences and Patterns among Women in 54 Low- to Middle-Income Countries

(2011) S. V. Subramanian et al.   PLoS One

Long run trends in the heights of European men, 19th–20th centuries

(2010) Timothy J. Hatton et al.   Economics & Human Biology

Short stature is associated with coronary heart disease: a systematic review of the literature and a meta-analysis

(2010) Tuula A. Paajanen et al.   EUROPEAN HEART JOURNAL

Adult height and cancer mortality in Asia: the Asia Pacific Cohort Studies Collaboration

(2009) G. D. Batty et al.   ANNALS OF ONCOLOGY

Nutritional status and economic development in sub-Saharan Africa, 1950–1980

(2009) Alexander Moradi   Economics & Human Biology

Improving on analyses of self-reported data in a large-scale health survey by using information from an examination-based survey

(2009) Nathaniel Schenker et al.   STATISTICS IN MEDICINE

Maternal and child undernutrition: global and regional exposures and health consequences

(2008) Robert E Black et al.   LANCET

Maternal and child undernutrition: consequences for adult health and human capital

(2008) Cesar G Victora et al.   LANCET