Browsing by Author "NCD Risk Factor Collaboration (NCD-RisC)"

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A century of trends in adult human height

Murtagh, Elaine; NCD Risk Factor Collaboration (NCD-RisC) (eLife Sciences Publications, 2016)

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 ...
Worldwide trends in children’s and adolescents’ body mass index, underweight, overweight and obesity, in comparison with adults, from 1975 to 2016: A pooled analysis of 2,416 population-based measurement studies with 128.9 million participants (Pre-published version)

Murtagh, Elaine; NCD Risk Factor Collaboration (NCD-RisC) (Elsevier, 2017)

Background: Being underweight as well as overweight and obese in childhood and adolescence are associated with adverse health consequences throughout the life-course. Our aim was to estimate worldwide trends in mean body ...