Adults Have Become Shorter in Many Countries [NYTimes.com]

Samantha Sangenito 7/27/1612:00 PM

Average adult heights in many countries appear to have peaked 30 to 40 years ago and have declined slightly since then, according to a new study that the authors say is based on the largest set of such data ever gathered.

They combined results from 1,472 studies in 200 countries looking at the measured — rather than self-reported or estimated — heights of about 18.6 million people born from 1896 to 1996. The study was published in eLife.

Dutchmen born before 2000 were the world’s tallest, and Guatemalan women born before 1900 were the shortest, the study found. South Korean women and Iranian men had the greatest gains in height over the last century. But Guatemalan women also grew, rising from 4 feet 7 inches to 4 feet 11 inches, on average.

[For more of this story, written by Donald G. McNeil Jr. go to http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07...ories-below&_r=1]

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Robert OlcottMember

With Dutchmen born before 2000, being the world's tallest, I wonder how that might correlate to the World Health Organization's 2013 assessment of the world's healthiest children-using an ACE screening tool adopted from the U.S. CDC/Kaiser-Permanente ACE study, which WHO modified/expanded: as the WHO 2013 assessment found children in the Netherlands to be the healthiest in the world.

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