Browsing by Author "Bentham, J."

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    A century of trends in adult human height
    (eLife Sciences Publications Ltd, 2016) Bentham, J.; Di Cesare, M.; Zhou, B.; Bixby, H.; Fortunato, L.; Bennett, J.E.; Kontis, V.; Riboli, E.; Ezzati, M.; Chan, Q.; Elliott, P.; Gunter, M.; Hihtaniemi, I. T.; Murphy, N.; Norat, T.; Ferreccio Readi, Fresia Catterina; Margozzini Maira, Paula; Miquel P., Juan Francisco; Nervi, Flavio; Valdivia Cabrera, Gonzalo
    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 for people born between 1896 and 1996 in 200 countries. The largest gain in adult height over the past century has occurred in South Korean women and Iranian men, who became 20.2 cm (95% credible interval 17.5–22.7) and 16.5 cm (13.3– 19.7) taller, respectively. In contrast, there was little change in adult height in some sub-Saharan African countries and in South Asia over the century of analysis. The tallest people over these 100 years are men born in the Netherlands in the last quarter of 20th century, whose average heights surpassed 182.5 cm, and the shortest were women born in Guatemala in 1896 (140.3 cm; 135.8– 144.8). The height differential between the tallest and shortest populations was 19-20 cm a century ago, and has remained the same for women and increased for men a century later despite substantial changes in the ranking of countries.
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    Effects of diabetes definition on global surveillance of diabetes prevalence and diagnosis : a pooled analysis of 96 population-based studies with 331288 participants
    (2015) Danaei, G.; Fahimi, S.; Lu, Y.; Zhou, B.; Hajifathalian, K.; Ferreccio Readi, Catterina; Margozzini Maira, Paula; Miquel P., Juan Francisco; Nervi, Flavio; Valdivia Cabrera, Gonzalo; Di Cesare, M.; Lo, W.; Reis, B.; Cowan, M.; Shaw, J.; Bentham, J.; Lin, J.; Bixby, H.; Magliano, D.; Bovet, P.; Danaei, G.; Fahimi, S.; Lu, Y.; Zhou, B.; Hajifathalian, K.; Ferreccio Readi, Catterina; Margozzini Maira, Paula; Miquel P., Juan Francisco; Nervi, Flavio; Valdivia Cabrera, Gonzalo; Di Cesare, M.; Lo, W.; Reis, B.; Cowan, M.; Shaw, J.; Bentham, J.; Lin, J.; Bixby, H.; Magliano, D.; Bovet, P.
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    Laboratory-based and office-based risk scores and charts to predict 10-year risk of cardiovascular disease in 182 countries: a pooled analysis of prospective cohorts and health surveys
    (2017) Margozzini Maira, Paula; Valdivia Cabrera, Gonzalo; Ueda, P.; Woodward, M.; Lu, Y.; Hajifathalian, K.; Aguilar González, Claudio; Ahmadvand, A.; Azizi, F.; Bentham, J.; Cifkova, R.; Di Cesare, M.; Eriksen, L.; Farzadfar, F.; Ferguson, T.; Khalili, D.; Lanska, V.
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    Rising rural body-mass index is the main driver of the global obesity epidemic in adults
    (2019) Bixby, H.; Bentham, J.; Zhou, B.; Di Cesare, M.; Paciorek, C. J.; Ferreccio Readi, Catterina; Margozzini Maira, Paula; Miquel P., Juan Francisco; Nervi, Flavio; Valdivia Cabrera, Gonzalo; Bennett, J. E.; Taddei, C.
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    Trends in cardiometabolic risk factors in the Americas between 1980 and 2014 : A pooled analysis of population-based surveys
    (2020) Miranda, J. J.; Carrillo-Larco, R. M.; Ferreccio Readi, Catterina; Hambleton, I. R.; Lotufo, P. A.; Nieto Martínez, R.; Zhou, B.; Margozzini Maira, Paula; Miquel P., Juan Francisco; Nervi, Flavio; Bentham, J.; Bixby, H.; Hajifathalian, K.; Lu, Y.; Taddei, C.; Abarca-Gómez, L.; Acosta-Cazares, B.; Aguilar-Salinas, C. A.; Andrade, D. S.; Assuncao, M. C. F.; Barceló, A.; Barros, Aluisio J. D.; Barros, Mauro V. G.; Bata, I.; Batista, R. L.; Benet, M.; Bernabé Ortiz, A.; Bettiol, H.; Boggia, J. G.; Boissonnet, C. P.; Brewster, L. M.; Cameron, C.; Candido, Ana Paula C.; Cardoso, V. C.; Chan, Q.; Christofaro, D. G.; Confortin, S. C.; Craig, C. L.; D'Orsi, E.; Delisle, H.; Duarte de Oliveira, Paula; Dias Da Costa, Juvenal Soares; Díaz, A.; Donoso, S. P.; Elliott, P.; Escobedo de la Peña, Jorge; Ferguson, T. S.; Fernándes, Rómulo; Ferrante, D.; Flores, E. M.