ReviewNutrition reviews2016
Adult height, nutrition, and population health.
Review in Nutrition reviews, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 177 papers, 8 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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177 citing papers in PubMed, 8 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Growth after pediatric and neonatal acute kidney injury: a meta-analysis.Pediatric nephrology (Berlin, Germany) · 2025Pooled it
- Prevalence of growth retardation among children and adolescents in China: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2025Pooled it
- Lower urinary tract electrical sensory assessment: a systematic review and meta-analysis.BJU international · 2022Pooled it
- A multi-population phenome-wide association study of genetically-predicted height in the Million Veteran Program.PLoS genetics · 2022Pooled it
- Socioeconomic position and body composition in childhood in high- and middle-income countries: a systematic review and narrative synthesis.International journal of obesity (2005) · 2021Pooled it
- Association of taller stature with lower cardiovascular disease mortality in Asian people: a systematic review.Journal of physiological anthropology · 2019Pooled it
- Interventions to improve linear growth during complementary feeding period for children aged 6-24 months living in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review and network meta-analysis.Gates open research · 2019Pooled it
- Height and body fatness and colorectal cancer risk: an update of the WCRF-AICR systematic review of published prospective studies.European journal of nutrition · 2018Pooled it
- Adult height and all-cause and cause-specific mortality in the Japan Public Health Center-based Prospective Study (JPHC).PloS one · 2018Trial
- Association of maternal height with pregnancy complications: Analyses of two cohorts.Pregnancy (Hoboken, N.J.) · 2026Article
- Multilevel Effects of Socioeconomic Factors on the Somatic Status of Contemporary Youth Across Russian Regions.American journal of human biology : the official journal of the Human Biology Council · 2026Article
- Exploring the link between body physiology and cognition: the role of the brain and aging.npj aging · 2026Article
- Secular Trend and Socioeconomic Variation in Body Height of Young Polish Men Between 1965 and 2023.American journal of human biology : the official journal of the Human Biology Council · 2026Article
- Fermented oyster extract promotes height growth in children with mild short stature: a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial.Nutrition research and practice · 2026Article
- The association between adult height and the incidence of diabetes in a Japanese working population: a prospective study exploring the possible role of cohort effects.BMC public health · 2026Article
- The promise of one health for improved soil and food security in Papua New Guinea.One health (Amsterdam, Netherlands) · 2026Article
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- Association and mediating pathways between intergenerational educational mobility and depressive symptoms: findings from high- and middle-income countries.BMC medicine · 2026Article
- The double-burden of poverty on cognition hypothesis: a systematic review of the mechanisms of the effect of poverty in early life on the development and expression of cognition in adolescence and adulthood.Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2026Review
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Abstract
In this review, the potential causes and consequences of adult height, a measure of cumulative net nutrition, in modern populations are summarized. The mechanisms linking adult height and health are examined, with a focus on the role of potential confounders. Evidence across studies indicates that short adult height (reflecting growth retardation) in low- and middle-income countries is driven by environmental conditions, especially net nutrition during early years. Some of the associations of height with health and social outcomes potentially reflect the association between these environmental factors and such outcomes. These conditions are manifested in the substantial differences in adult height that exist between and within countries and over time. This review suggests that adult height is a useful marker of variation in cumulative net nutrition, biological deprivation, and standard of living between and within populations and should be routinely measured. Linkages between adult height and health, within and across generations, suggest that adult height may be a potential tool for monitoring health conditions and that programs focused on offspring outcomes may consider maternal height as a potentially important influence.
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