Secular Change in Adult Stature Has Come to a Halt in Northern Europe and Italy

Overview

Journal Acta Paediatr

Specialty Pediatrics

Date 2006 Jun 7

PMID 16754562

Citations 16

Authors

Anni Larnkaer

Stine Attrup Schroder

Ida Maria Schmidt

Marianne Horby Jorgensen

Kim Fleischer Michaelsen

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Abstract

Aim: To investigate whether the increase in adult stature in European countries is continuing.

Methods: The secular trend in growth after 1990 for various European countries was assessed by national conscript data.

Results: In Scandinavia and the Netherlands, the height has reached a plateau at 179-181 cm, and in Italy a plateau at 174 cm. In Belgium, Portugal and Spain, height continued to increase.

Conclusion: Only in the northern European countries and Italy height has ceased to increase.

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