Height and body-mass index trajectories of school-aged children and adolescents from 1985 to 2019 in 200 countries and territories: a pooled analysis of 2181 population-based studies with 65 million participants

Rodriguez-Martinez A., Zhou B., Sophiea M. K., Bentham J., Paciorek C. J., Iurilli M. L. C., ...More

LANCET, vol.396, no.10261, pp.1511-1524, 2020 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier identifier identifier

  • Publication Type: Article / Article
  • Volume: 396 Issue: 10261
  • Publication Date: 2020
  • Doi Number: 10.1016/s0140-6736(20)31859-6
  • Journal Name: LANCET
  • Journal Indexes: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus, PASCAL, Agricultural & Environmental Science Database, Aquatic Science & Fisheries Abstracts (ASFA), BIOSIS, CAB Abstracts, EMBASE, Food Science & Technology Abstracts, MEDLINE, Psycinfo, Veterinary Science Database
  • Page Numbers: pp.1511-1524
  • Karadeniz Technical University Affiliated: Yes

Abstract

Background Comparable global data on health and nutrition of school-aged children and adolescents are scarce. We aimed to estimate age trajectories and time trends in mean height and mean body-mass index (BMI), which measures weight gain beyond what is expected from height gain, for school-aged children and adolescents.