Browsing by Author "Di Cesare, M."

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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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    Diminishing benefits of urban living for children and adolescents' growth and development
    (Nature Portfolio, 2023) Berrios Carrasola, Ximena; Echeverría Errázuriz, Guadalupe; Ferreccio Readi, Fresia Catterina; Margozzini Maira, Paula Andrea; Miquel Poblete, Juan Francisco; Nervi Oddone, Flavio; Rigotti Rivera, Attilio Gianpietro; Valdivia Cabrera, Gonzalo Sergio; Mishra, A.; Zhou, B.; Rodríguez-Martínez, A.; Bixby, H.; Singleton, R. K.; Carrillo-Larco, R. M.; Sheffer, K. E.; Paciorek, C. J.; Bennett, J. E.; Lhoste, V.; Lurilli, M. L.; Di Cesare, M.
    Optimal growth and development in childhood and adolescence is crucial for lifelong health and well-being1,2,3,4,5,6. Here we used data from 2,325 population-based studies, with measurements of height and weight from 71 million participants, to report the height and body-mass index (BMI) of children and adolescents aged 5–19 years on the basis of rural and urban place of residence in 200 countries and territories from 1990 to 2020. In 1990, children and adolescents residing in cities were taller than their rural counterparts in all but a few high-income countries. By 2020, the urban height advantage became smaller in most countries, and in many high-income western countries it reversed into a small urban-based disadvantage. The exception was for boys in most countries in sub-Saharan Africa and in some countries in Oceania, south Asia and the region of central Asia, Middle East and north Africa. In these countries, successive cohorts of boys from rural places either did not gain height or possibly became shorter, and hence fell further behind their urban peers. The difference between the age-standardized mean BMI of children in urban and rural areas was <1.1 kg m–2 in the vast majority of countries. Within this small range, BMI increased slightly more in cities than in rural areas, except in south Asia, sub-Saharan Africa and some countries in central and eastern Europe. Our results show that in much of the world, the growth and developmental advantages of living in cities have diminished in the twenty-first century, whereas in much of sub-Saharan Africa they have amplified.
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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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    Repositioning of the global epicentre of non-optimal cholesterol
    (2020) Taddei, C.; Zhou, B.; Bixby, H.; Carrillo Larco, R. M.; Danaei, G.; Jackson, R. T.; Margozzini Maira, Paula; Ferreccio Readi, Catterina; Miquel P., Juan Francisco; Nervi, Flavio; Farzadfar, F.; Sophiea, M. K.; Di Cesare, M.; Iurilli, M. L. C.; Martínez, A. R.; Asghari, G.; Dhana, K.; Gulayin, P.; Kakarmath, S.; Santero, M.; Voortman, T.; Riley, L. M.; Cowan, M. J.; Savin, S.; Bennett, J.E.; Stevens, G. A.; Paciorek, C. J.; Aekplakorn, W.; Cifkova, R.; Giampaoli, S.; Kengne, A. P.; Khang, Y.-H.; Kuulasmaa, K.; Laxmaiah, A.; Mathur, P.; Nordestgaard, B. G.; Zhao, D.; Aadahl, M.; Abarca-Gómez, L.; Rahim, H. A.; Abu-Rmeileh, N. M.; Acosta-Cázares, B.; Adams, R. J.; Agdeppa, I. A.; Aghazadeh-Attari, J.; Aguilar-Salinas, C. A.; Agyemang, C.; Ahluwalia, T. S.; Ahmad, N. A.; Ahmadi, A.
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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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    Worldwide trends in diabetes since 1980: a pooled analysis of 751 population-based studies with 4·4 million participants
    (2016) Ferreccio Readi, Catterina; Margozzini Maira, Paula; Miquel P., Juan Francisco; Nervi, Flavio; Valdivia Cabrera, Gonzalo; Di Cesare, M.; Danaei, G.; Bixby, H.; Cowan, M.; Ali, M.; Taddei, C.; Lo, W.; Reis, B.; Stevens, G.; Riley, L.; Miranda, J.