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ArticleFrontiers in endocrinology2020

People Are Taller in Countries With Better Environmental Conditions.

Alina German, Gustavo Mesch, Ze'ev Hochberg

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Article in Frontiers in endocrinology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

11 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. 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 · 2026
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  4. The Contribution of the Distal Limbs to Height and Proportions in Different Socioeconomic Groups.American journal of human biology : the official journal of the Human Biology Council · 2025
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  7. Correlates of Gait Speed Among Older Adults From 6 Countries: Findings From the COSMIC Collaboration.The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences · 2023
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Alina GermanPediatric Department, Bnei-Zion Medical Center, Haifa, Israel.
Gustavo MeschDepartment of Sociology, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel.
Ze'ev HochbergRappaport Family Faculty of Medicine, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Body HeightEnvironmentAdultChildChild DevelopmentDeveloping CountriesFemaleGenetic PhenomenaGeographyHomicideHumansIncomeLife ExpectancyMaleQuality of LifeSocial Environmentenvironmentgrowthheightinequalitysocialstress

Identifiers

PMID32218770
PMCPMC7078159

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