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3 Ιουν 2022 · An international team of researchers compared measures of height, both genetic and physical, with the presence of more than a thousand traits in more than 280,000 US adults, confirming suspicions that height is linked with a number of common diseases.
2 Ιουν 2022 · Being taller may increase your risk of developing nerve, skin and some heart diseases, according to the largest study linking height and disease to date.
What explains the changes and differences in human height? There are large differences in human height across the world. These differences are not just geographical: human heights have changed significantly over our history, with increases in every country over the past century.
On the one hand, trends in average height in adulthood mirror changes in living standard and health status of a population and its subgroups; on the other hand, height in general, as well as the loss of height in older age in particular, are associated in different ways with outcomes for health.
This page links to the world maps, line charts, bubble plots, and ranking plots for pooled global data for human adult height in the last century.
25 Οκτ 2018 · We examined the associations for adult height (using logistic regression adjusted for potential confounders) and genetically determined height (using a two-sample Mendelian randomisation approach with height-associated genetic variants as instrumental variables) in 417,434 individuals of white ethnic background participating in the UK Biobank.
23 Ιουλ 2012 · We aimed to study associations between baseline adult height and subsequent risk of cause-specific death (as well as major vascular morbidity) by analysing data from 1 085 949 people in mostly population-based studies who were at risk for a total of 16.1 million person-years.
