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Michael Sjöström
Researcher at Karolinska Institutet
Publications - 203
Citations - 38754
Michael Sjöström is an academic researcher from Karolinska Institutet. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Physical fitness. The author has an hindex of 65, co-authored 203 publications receiving 33243 citations. Previous affiliations of Michael Sjöström include Örebro University.
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International physical activity questionnaire: 12-country reliability and validity
Cora L Craig,Alison L. Marshall,Michael Sjöström,Adrian Bauman,Michael L. Booth,Barbara E. Ainsworth,Michael Pratt,Ulf Ekelund,Agneta Yngve,James F. Sallis,Pekka Oja +10 more
TL;DR: Considering the diverse samples in this study, IPAQ has reasonable measurement properties for monitoring population levels of physical activity among 18- to 65-yr-old adults in diverse settings.
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Worldwide trends in diabetes since 1980: a pooled analysis of 751 population-based studies with 4.4 million participants
Bin Zhou,Yuan Lu,Kaveh Hajifathalian,James Bentham,Mariachiara Di Cesare,Mariachiara Di Cesare,Goodarz Danaei,Honor Bixby,Melanie J. Cowan,Mohammed K. Ali,Cristina Taddei,Wei Cheng Lo,Barbara Reis-Santos,Gretchen A Stevens,Leanne M. Riley,J. Jaime Miranda,Peter Bjerregaard,Juan A Rivera,Heba Fouad,Guansheng Ma,Jean Claude Mbanya,Stephen T. McGarvey,Viswanathan Mohan,Altan Onat,Ambady Ramachandran,Habiba Ben Romdhane,Christopher J. Paciorek,James E. Bennett,Majid Ezzati,Ziad Abdeen,Khalid Abdul Kadir,Niveen M E Abu-Rmeileh,Benjamin Acosta-Cazares,Robert J. Adams,Wichai Aekplakorn,Carlos A. Aguilar-Salinas,Charles Agyemang,Alireza Ahmadvand,Amani Al-Othman,Ala'a Alkerwi,Philippe Amouyel,Antoinette Amuzu,Lars Bo Andersen,Sigmund A. Anderssen,Ranjit Mohan Anjana,Hajer Aounallah-Skhiri,Tahir Aris,Nimmathota Arlappa,Dominique Arveiler,Felix K. Assah,Maria Avdicova,Fereidoun Azizi,Nagalla Balakrishna,Piotr Bandosz,Carlo M. Barbagallo,Alberto Barceló,Anwar Batieha,Louise A. Baur,Mikhail Benet,Antonio Bernabe-Ortiz,Sumit Bharadwaj,Santosh K. Bhargava,Yufang Bi,Espen Bjertness,Marius B. Bjertness,Cecilia Björkelund,Anneke Blokstra,Simona Bo,Bernhard O. Boehm,Carlos P. Boissonnet,Pascal Bovet,Imperia Brajkovich,Juergen Breckenkamp,Hermann Brenner,Lizzy M. Brewster,Garry Brian,Graziella Bruno,Anna Bugge,Antonio Cabrera de León,Günay Can,Ana Paula C. Candido,Vincenzo Capuano,Axel C. Carlsson,Maria J. Carvalho,Felipe F. Casanueva,Juan-Pablo Casas,Carmelo A. Caserta,Katia Castetbon,Snehalatha Chamukuttan,Nishi Chaturvedi,Chien-Jen Chen,Fangfang Chen,Shuohua Chen,Ching-Yu Cheng,Angela Chetrit,Shu Ti Chiou,Yumi Cho,Jerzy Chudek,Renata Cifkova,Frank Claessens,Hans Concin,Cyrus Cooper,Rachel Cooper,Simona Costanzo,Dominique Cottel,Christopher T. Cowell,Ana B. Crujeiras,Graziella D'Arrigo,Jean Dallongeville,Rachel Dankner,Luc Dauchet,Giovanni de Gaetano,Stefaan De Henauw,Mohan Deepa,Abbas Dehghan,Valérie Deschamps,Klodian Dhana,Augusto Di Castelnuovo,Shirin Djalalinia,Kouamelan Doua,Wojciech Drygas,Yong Du,Vilnis Dzerve,Eruke E. Egbagbe,Robert Eggertsen,Jalila El Ati,Roberto Elosua,Rajiv T Erasmus,Cihangir Erem,Gül Ergör,Louise Eriksen,Jorge Escobedo-de la Peña,Caroline H.D. Fall,Farshad Farzadfar,Francisco J. Félix-Redondo,Trevor S. Ferguson,Daniel Fernández-Bergés,Marika Ferrari,Catterina Ferreccio,Edith J. M. Feskens,Joseph D. Finn,Bernhard Foeger,Leng Huat Foo,Ann-Sofie Forslund,Damian K Francis,Maria do Carmo Franco,Oscar H. Franco,Guillermo Frontera,Takuro Furusawa,Zbigniew Gaciong,Sarah P. Garnett,Jean-Michel Gaspoz,Magda Gasull,Louise Gates,Johanna M. Geleijnse,Anoosheh Ghasemian,Anup Ghimire,Simona Giampaoli,Francesco Gianfagna,Jonathan Giovannelli,Aleksander Giwercman,Marcela González Gross,Juan P. Gonzalez Rivas,Mariano Bonet Gorbea,Frederic Gottrand,Dusan Grafnetter,Tomasz Grodzicki,Anders Grøntved,Grabriella Gruden,Dongfeng Gu,Ong Peng Guan,Ramiro Guerrero,Idris Guessous,André Luiz Sena Guimarães,Laura Gutierrez,Ian Hambleton,Rebecca Hardy,Rachakulla Hari Kumar,Jun Hata,Christin Heidemann,Sauli Herrala,Ilpo Tapani Hihtaniemi,Sai Yin Ho,Suzanne C. Ho,Albert Hofman,Claudia M. Hormiga,Bernardo L. Horta,Leila Houti,Christina Howitt,Thein Thein Htay,Aung Soe Htet,Maung Maung Than Htike,Yang Hu,Abdullatif S. Hussieni,Inge Huybrechts,Nahla Hwalla,Licia Iacoviello,Anna G. Iannone,Mohsen Ibrahim,Nayu Ikeda,M. Arfan Ikram,Vilma E. Irazola,Muhammad Islam,Masanori Iwasaki,Jeremy M. Jacobs,Tazeen H. Jafar,Kazi M. Jamil,Grazyna Jasienska,Chaoqiang Jiang,Jost B. Jonas,Pradeep Joshi,Anthony Kafatos,Ofra Kalter-Leibovici,Amir Kasaeian,Joanne Katz,Prabhdeep Kaur,Maryam Kavousi,Roya Kelishadi,Andre Pascal Kengne,Mathilde Kersting,Yousef Khader,Davood Khalili,Young-Ho Khang,Stefan Kiechl,Jeongseon Kim,Patrick Kolsteren,Wolfgang Kratzer,Daan Kromhout,Urho M. Kujala,Krzysztof Kula,Catherine Kyobutungi,Tiina Laatikainen,Carl Lachat,Youcef Laid,Tai Hing Lam,Orlando Landrove,Vera Lanska,Georg Lappas,Avula Laxmaiah,Catherine Leclercq,Jeannette Lee,Jeonghee Lee,Terho Lehtimäki,Rampal Lekhraj,Luz M. León-Muñoz,Yanping Li,Wei-Yen Lim,M. Fernanda Lima-Costa,Hsien-Ho Lin,Xu Lin,Lauren Lissner,Roberto Lorbeer,Jose Eugenio Lozano,Dalia Luksiene,Annamari Lundqvist,Per Lytsy,George Luiz Lins Machado-Coelho,Suka Machi,Stefania Maggi,Dianna J. Magliano,Marcia Makdisse,Kodavanti Mallikharjuna Rao,Yannis Manios,Enzo Manzato,Paula Margozzini,Pedro Marques-Vidal,Reynaldo Martorell,Shariq Rashid Masoodi,Ellisiv B. Mathiesen,Tandi E. Matsha,Shelly R. McFarlane,Stela McLachlan,Breige A. McNulty,Sounnia Mediene-Benchekor,Aline Meirhaeghe,Ana Maria Menezes,Shahin Merat,Indrapal I. Meshram,Jie Mi,Juan Francisco Miquel,Mostafa K. Mohamed,Kazem Mohammad,Noushin Mohammadifard,Muhammad Fadhli Mohd Yusoff,Niels Møller,Dénes Molnár,Charles Mondo,Alain Morejon,Luis A. Moreno,Karen Morgan,George Moschonis,Małgorzata Mossakowska,Aya Mostafa,Jorge Mota,Jorge Motta,Thet Thet Mu,Maria Lorenza Muiesan,Martina Mueller-Nurasyid,Jaakko Mursu,Gabriele Nagel,Jana Námešná,Ei Ei K. Nang,Vinay Nangia,Eva María Navarrete-Muñoz,Ndeye Coumba Ndiaye,Ilona Nenko,Flavio Nervi,Nguyen D Nguyen,Quang Ngoc Nguyen,Ramfis Nieto-Martínez,Guang Ning,Toshiharu Ninomiya,Marianna Noale,Davide Noto,Mohannad Al Nsour,Angélica Ochoa-Avilés,Kyungwon Oh,Pedro Ordunez,Clive Osmond,Johanna A. Otero,Ellis Owusu-Dabo,Elena Pahomova,Luigi Palmieri,Songhomitra Panda-Jonas,Francesco Panza,Mahboubeh Parsaeian,Sérgio Viana Peixoto,Markku Peltonen,Annette Peters,Niloofar Peykari,Son Thai Pham,Aida Pilav,Freda Pitakaka,Aleksandra Piwońska,Jerzy Piwoński,Pedro Plans-Rubio,Miquel Porta,Marileen L.P. Portegies,Hossein Poustchi,Rajendra Pradeepa,Jacqueline F. Price,Margus Punab,Radwan Qasrawi,Mostafa Qorbani,Ričardas Radišauskas,Mahmudur Rahman,Olli T. Raitakari,Sudha Ramachandra Rao,Jacqueline Ramke,Rafel Ramos,Sanjay Rampal,Wolfgang Rathmann,Josep Redon,Paul Ferdinand M. Reganit,Fernando Rigo,Sian M. Robinson,Cynthia Robitaille,Fernando Rodríguez-Artalejo,Maria del Cristo Rodriguez-Perez,Laura A. Rodríguez-Villamizar,Rosalba Rojas-Martínez,Kimmo Ronkainen,Annika Rosengren,Adolfo Rubinstein,Ornelas Rui,Blanca Sandra Ruiz-Betancourt,Andrea R. V. R. Horimoto,Marcin Rutkowski,Charumathi Sabanayagam,Harshpal Singh Sachdev,Olfa Saidi,Sibel Sakarya,Benoit Salanave,Jukka T. Salonen,Massimo Salvetti,Jose Sanchez-Abanto,Diana A. Santos,Renata Nunes dos Santos,Rute Santos,Jouko Saramies,Luís B. Sardinha,Nizal Sarrafzadegan,Kai-Uwe Saum,Marcia Scazufca,Herman Schargrodsky,Christa Scheidt-Nave,Aye Aye Sein,Sanjb K. Sharma,Jonathan E. Shaw,Kenji Shibuya,Youchan Shin,Rahman Shiri,Rosalynn Siantar,Abla M. Sibai,Mary Simon,Judith Simons,Leon A. Simons,Michael Sjöström,Jolanta Slowikowska-Hilczer,Przemyslaw Slusarczyk,Liam Smeeth,Marieke B. Snijder,Hung-Kwan So,Eugene Sobngwi,Stefan Söderberg,Vincenzo Solfrizzi,Emily Sonestedt,Aicha Soumare,Jan A. Staessen,Maria G. Stathopoulou,Jostein Steene-Johannessen,Peter Stehle,Aryeh D. Stein,Jochanan Stessman,Doris Stoeckl,Jakub Stokwiszewski,Karien Stronks,Maria Wany Louzada Strufaldi,Chien-An Sun,Johan Sundström,Yn-Tz Sung,Paibul Suriyawongpaisal,Rody G. Sy,E. Shyong Tai,Abdonas Tamosiunas,Line Tang,Mohammed Rasoul Tarawneh,Carolina Tarqui-Mamani,Anne W. Taylor,Holger Theobald,Lutgarde Thijs,Betina H. Thuesen,Hanna Tolonen,Janne Schurmann Tolstrup,Murat Topbaş,Maties Torrent,Pierre Traissac,Oanh T. H. Trinh,Marshall K. Tulloch-Reid,Tomi-Pekka Tuomainen,Maria L. Turley,Christophe Tzourio,Peter Ueda,Flora Ukoli,Hanno Ulmer,Hannu Uusitalo,Gonzalo Valdivia,Damaskini Valvi,Lenie van Rossem,Irene G. M. van Valkengoed,Dirk Vanderschueren,Diego Vanuzzo,Tomas Vega,Gustavo Velasquez-Melendez,Giovanni Veronesi,W. M. Monique Verschuren,Roosmarijn Verstraeten,Lucie Viet,Jesús Vioque,Jyrki K. Virtanen,Bharathi Viswanathan,Peter Vollenweider,Sari Voutilainen,Martine Vrijheid,Alisha N. Wade,Aline Wagner,Janette Walton,Wan Nazaimoon Wan Mohamud,Feng Wang,Ming-Dong Wang,Qian Wang,Ya Xing Wang,S. Goya Wannamethee,Deepa Weerasekera,Peter H. Whincup,Kurt Widhalm,Alet H. Wijga,Rainford J. Wilks,Johann Willeit,Tom Wilsgaard,Bogdan Wojtyniak,Tien Yin Wong,Jean Woo,Mark Woodward,Frederick C. W. Wu,Shou Ling Wu,Haiquan Xu,Weili Yan,Xiaoguang Yang,Xingwang Ye,Akihiro Yoshihara,Novie O. Younger-Coleman,Sabina Zambon,Abdul Hamid Zargar,Tomasz Zdrojewski,Wenhua Zhao,Yingfeng Zheng,Julio Zuñiga Cisneros +497 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors used a Bayesian hierarchical model to estimate trends in diabetes prevalence, defined as fasting plasma glucose of 7.0 mmol/L or higher, or history of diagnosis with diabetes, or use of insulin or oral hypoglycaemic drugs in 200 countries and territories in 21 regions, by sex and from 1980 to 2014.
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Physical fitness in childhood and adolescence: a powerful marker of health
TL;DR: In this paper, a review of the latest developments with regard to physical fitness and several health outcomes in young people is presented, and the authors suggest that health promotion policies and physical activity programs should be designed to improve cardiorespiratory fitness, but also two other physical fitness components such us muscular fitness and speed/agility.
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The International Physical Activity Questionnaire (IPAQ): a study of concurrent and construct validity.
TL;DR: The long, self-administered IPAQ questionnaire has acceptable validity when assessing levels and patterns of PA in healthy adults and might introduce a source of error in criterion validation studies.
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A century of trends in adult human height
James Bentham,Mariachiara Di Cesare,Mariachiara Di Cesare,Gretchen A Stevens,Bin Zhou,Honor Bixby,Melanie J. Cowan,Lea Fortunato,James E. Bennett,Goodarz Danaei,Kaveh Hajifathalian,Yuan Lu,Leanne M. Riley,Avula Laxmaiah,Vasilis Kontis,Christopher J. Paciorek,Elio Riboli,Majid Ezzati,Ziad Abdeen,Zargar Abdul Hamid,Niveen M E Abu-Rmeileh,Benjamin Acosta-Cazares,Robert J. Adams,Wichai Aekplakorn,Carlos A. Aguilar-Salinas,Charles Agyemang,Alireza Ahmadvand,Wolfgang Ahrens,Hazzaa M. Al-Hazzaa,Amani Al-Othman,Rajaa Al Raddadi,Mohamed M. Ali,Ala'a Alkerwi,Mar Alvarez-Pedrerol,Eman Aly,Philippe Amouyel,Antoinette Amuzu,Lars Bo Andersen,Sigmund A. Anderssen,Ranjit Mohan Anjana,Hajer Aounallah-Skhiri,Inger Ariansen,Tahir Aris,Nimmathota Arlappa,Dominique Arveiler,Felix K. Assah,Maria Avdicova,Fereidoun Azizi,Bontha V. Babu,Suhad Bahijri,Nagalla Balakrishna,Piotr Bandosz,José R. Banegas,Carlo M. Barbagallo,Alberto Barceló,Amina Barkat,Mauro Virgílio Gomes de Barros,Iqbal Bata,Anwar Batieha,Rosangela Fernandes Lucena Batista,Louise A. Baur,Robert Beaglehole,Habiba Ben Romdhane,Mikhail Benet,Antonio Bernabe-Ortiz,Gailute Bernotine,Heloisa Bettiol,Aroor Bhagyalaxmi,Sumit Bharadwaj,Santosh K. Bhargava,Zaid Bhatti,Zulfiqar A Bhutta,Zulfiqar A Bhutta,Hongsheng Bi,Yufang Bi,Peter Bjerregaard,Espen Bjertness,Marius B. Bjertness,Cecilia Björkelund,Anneke Blokstra,Simona Bo,Martin Bobak,Lynne M. Boddy,Bernhard O. Boehm,Heiner Boeing,Carlos P. Boissonnet,Vanina Bongard,Pascal Bovet,Lutgart Braeckman,Marjolijn C. E. Bragt,Imperia Brajkovich,Francesco Branca,Juergen Breckenkamp,Hermann Brenner,Lizzy M. Brewster,Garry Brian,Graziella Bruno,H. B Bueno-de-Mesquita,Anna Bugge,Con Burns,Antonio Cabrera de León,Joseph Cacciottolo,Tilema Cama,Christine Cameron,José Camolas,Günay Can,Ana Paula C. Candido,Vincenzo Capuano,Viviane Cunha Cardoso,Axel C. Carlsson,Maria J. Carvalho,Felipe F. Casanueva,Juan-Pablo Casas,Carmelo A. Caserta,Snehalatha Chamukuttan,Angelique Chan,Queenie Chan,Himanshu K. Chaturvedi,Nishi Chaturvedi,Chien-Jen Chen,Fangfang Chen,Huashuai Chen,Shuohua Chen,Zhengming Chen,Ching-Yu Cheng,Angela Chetrit,Arnaud Chiolero,Shu Ti Chiou,Adela Chirita-Emandi,Belong Cho,Yumi Cho,Kaare Christensen,Jerzy Chudek,Renata Cifkova,Frank Claessens,Els Clays,Hans Concin,Cyrus Cooper,Rachel Cooper,Tara Coppinger,Simona Costanzo,Dominique Cottel,Christopher T. Cowell,Cora L. Craig,Ana B. Crujeiras,Graziella D'Arrigo,Eleonora d'Orsi,Jean Dallongeville,Albertino Damasceno,Camilla T. Damsgaard,Rachel Dankner,Luc Dauchet,Guy De Backer,Dirk De Bacque,Giovanni de Gaetano,Stefaan De Hanauw,Delphine De Smedt,Mohan Deepa,Alexander D. Deev,Abbas Dehghan,Hélène Delisle,Francis Delpeuch,Valérie Deschamps,Klodian Dhana,Augusto Di Castelnuovo,Juvenal Soares Dias-da-Costa,Alejandro Diaz,Shirin Djalalinia,Ha T. P. Do,Annette J. Dobson,Chiara Donfrancesco,Silvana Donoso,Angela Doering,Kouamelan Doua,Wojciech Drygas,Vilnis Dzerve,Eruke E. Egbagbe,Robert Eggertsen,Ulf Ekelund,Jalila El Ati,Paul Elliott,Reina Engle-Stone,Rajiv T Erasmus,Cihangir Erem,Loise Eriksen,Jorge Escobedo-de la Peña,Alun Evans,David Faeh,Caroline H.D. Fall,Farshad Farzadfar,Francisco J. Félix-Redondo,Trevor S. Ferguson,Daniel Fernández-Bergés,Daniel Ferrante,Marika Ferrari,Catterina Ferreccio,Jean Ferrières,Joseph D. Finn,Krista Fischer,Eric Monterubio Flores,Bernhard Foeger,Leng Huat Foo,Ann-Sofie Forslund,Maria Forsner,Stephen P. Fortmann,Heba M. Francis,Damian K Francis,Maria do Carmo Franco,Oscar H. Franco,Guillermo Frontera,Flávio Danni Fuchs,Sandra C. Fuchs,Yuki Fujita,Takuro Furusawa,Zbigniew Gaciong,Mihai Gafencu,Dickman Gareta,Sarah P. Garnett,Jean-Michel Gaspoz,Magda Gasull,Louise Gates,Johanna M. Geleijnse,Anoosheh Ghasemian,Simona Giampaoli,Francesco Gianfagna,Jonathan Giovannelli,Aleksander Giwercman,Rebecca Goldsmith,Helen Gonçalves,Marcela González Gross,Juan P. Gonzalez Rivas,Mariano Bonet Gorbea,Frederic Gottrand,Sidsel Graff-Iversen,Dusan Grafnetter,Aneta Grajda,Maria G. Grammatikopoulou,Ronald D. Gregor,Tomasz Grodzicki,Anders Grøntved,Grabriella Gruden,Vera Grujic,Dongfeng Gu,Emanuela Gualdi-Russo,Ong Peng Guan,Vilmundur Gudnason,Ramiro Guerrero,Idris Guessous,André Luiz Sena Guimarães,Martin Gulliford,Johanna Gunnlaugsdottir,Marc J. Gunter,Xiu-Hua Guo,Yin Guo,Prakash C. Gupta,Oye Gureje,Beata Gurzkowska,Laura Gutierrez,Felix Gutzwiller,Jytte Halkjær,Ian Hambleton,Rebecca Hardy,Rachakulla Hari Kumar,Jun Hata,Alison J. Hayes,Jiang He,Marleen Ekisabeth Hendriks,Leticia Hernandez Cadena,Sauli Herrala,Ramin Heshmat,Ilpo Tapani Hihtaniemi,Sai Yin Ho,Suzanne C. Ho,Michael Hobbs,Albert Hofman,Claudi M. Hormiga,Bernardo L. Horta,Leila Houti,Christina Howitt,Thein Thein Htay,Aung Soe Htet,Maung Maung Than Htike,Yonghua Hu,Abdullatif Husseini,Chinh Nguyen Huu,Inge Huybrechts,Nahla Hwalla,Licia Iacoviello,Anna G. Iannone,Mohsen Ibrahim,Nayu Ikeda,M. Arfan Ikram,Vilma E. Irazola,Muhammad Islam,Vanja Ivković,Masanori Iwasaki,Rod Jackson,Jeremy M. Jacobs,Tazeen H. Jafar,Kazi M. Jamil,Konrad Jamrozik,Imre Janszky,Grazyna Jasienska,Bojan Jelaković,Chaoqiang Jiang,Michel Joffres,Mattias Johansson,Jost B. Jonas,Torben Jørgensen,Pradeep Joshi,Anne Juolevi,Gregor Jurak,Vesno Juresa,Rudolf Kaaks,Anthony Kafatos,Ofra Kalter-Leibovici,Efthymios Kapantais,Amir Kasaeian,Joanne Katz,Prabhdeep Kaur,Maryam Kavousi,Ulrich Keil,Lital Keinan Boker,Sirkka Keinänen-Kiukaanniemi,Roya Kelishadi,Han C. G. Kemper,Andre Pascal Kengne,Mathilde Kersting,Timothy J. Key,Yousef Khader,Davood Khalili,Young-Ho Khang,Kay-Tee H. Khaw,Ilse Khouw,Stefan Kiechl,Japhet Killewo,Jeongseon Kim,Jeannette Klimont,Jurate Klumbiene,Bhawesh Koirala,Elin Kolle,Patrick Kolsteren,Paul Korrovits,Seppo Koskinen,Katsuyasu Kouda,Slawomir Koziel,Wolfgang Kratzer,Steinar Krokstad,Daan Kromhout,Herculina S. Kruger,Ruzena Kubinova,Urho M. Kujala,Krzysztof Kula,Zbigniew Kułaga,R. Krishna Kumar,Pawel Kurjata,Yadlapalli S. Kusuma,Kari Kuulasmaa,Catherine Kyobutungi,Fatima Zahra Laamiri,Tiina Laatikainen,Carl Lachat,Youcef Laid,Tai Hing Lam,Orlando Landrove,Vera Lanska,Georg Lappas,Bagher Larijani,Lars E. Laugsand,Khanh Le Nguyen Bao,Tuyen D Le,Catherine Leclercq,Jeannette Lee,Jeonghee Lee,Terho Lehtimäki,Rampal Lekhraj,Luz M. León-Muñoz,Yanping Li,Christa L. Lilly,Wei-Yen Lim,M. Fernanda Lima-Costa,Hsien-Ho Lin,Xu Lin,Allan Linneberg,Lauren Lissner,Mieczysław Litwin,Jing Liu,Roberto Lorbeer,Paulo A. Lotufo,Jose Eugenio Lozano,Dalia Luksiene,Annamari Lundqvist,Nuno Lunet,Guansheng Ma,Jun Ma,George Luiz Lins Machado-Coelho,Suka Machi,Stefania Maggi,Dianna J. Magliano,Bernard Maire,Marcia Makdisse,Reza Malekzadeh,Rahul Malhotra,Kodavanti Mallikharjuna Rao,Sofia Malyutina,Yannis Manios,Jim Mann,Enzo Manzato,Paula Margozzini,Oonagh Markey,Pedro Marques-Vidal,Jaume Marrugat,Yves Martin-Prével,Reynaldo Martorell,Shariq Rashid Masoodi,Ellisiv B. Mathiesen,Tandi E. Matsha,Artur Mazur,Jean Claude Mbanya,Shelly R. McFarlane,Stephen T. McGarvey,Martin McKee,Stela McLachlan,Rachael McLean,Breige A. McNulty,Safiah Md Yusof,Sounnia Mediene-Benchekor,Aline Meirhaeghe,Christa Meisinger,Ana Maria Menezes,Gert B. M. Mensink,Indrapal I. Meshram,Andres Metspalu,Jie Mi,Kim F. Michaelsen,Kairit Mikkel,Jody C Miller,Juan Francisco Miquel,J. Jaime Miranda,Marjeta Mišigoj-Duraković,Mostafa K. Mohamed,Kazem Mohammad,Noushin Mohammadifard,Viswanathan Mohan,Muhammad Fadhli Mohd Yusoff,Drude Molbo,Niels Møller,Dénes Molnár,Charles Mondo,Eric A Monterrubio,Kotsedi D Monyeki,Leila Beltrami Moreira,Alain Morejon,Luis A. Moreno,Karen Morgan,Erik Lykke Mortensen,George Moschonis,Małgorzata Mossakowska,Aya Mostafa,Jorge Mota,Mohammad Esmaeel Motlagh,Jorge Motta,Thet Thet Mu,Maria Lorenza Muiesan,Martina Mueller-Nurasyid,Neil Murphy,Jaakko Mursu,Elaine M. Murtagh,Kamarul Imran Musa,Vera Musil,Gabriele Nagel,Harunobu Nakamura,Jana Námešná,Ei Ei K. Nang,Vinay Nangia,Martin Nankap,Sameer Narake,Eva María Navarrete-Muñoz,William A. Neal,Ilona Nenko,Martin Neovius,Flavio Nervi,Hannelore Neuhauser,Nguyen D Nguyen,Quang Ngoc Nguyen,Ramfis Nieto-Martínez,Guang Ning,Toshiharu Ninomiya,Sania Nishtar,Marianna Noale,Teresa Norat,Davide Noto,Mohannad Al Nsour,Dermot O'Reilly,Kyungwon Oh,Iman H. Olayan,Maria Teresa Anselmo Olinto,Maciej Oltarzewski,Mohd Azahadi Omar,Altan Onat,Pedro Ordunez,Ana P. Ortiz,Merete Osler,Clive Osmond,Sergej M. Ostojic,Johanna A. Otero,Kim Overvad,Ellis Owusu-Dabo,Fred Paccaud,Cristina Padez,Elena Pahomova,Andrzej Pajak,Domenico Palli,Alberto Palloni,Luigi Palmieri,Songhomitra Panda-Jonas,Francesco Panza,Winsome R. Parnell,Mahboubeh Parsaeian,Ivan Pećin,Mangesh S. Pednekar,Petra H.M. Peeters,Sérgio Viana Peixoto,Markku Peltonen,Alexandre C. Pereira,Cynthia M. Pérez,Annette Peters,Janina Petkeviciene,Niloofar Peykari,Son Thai Pham,Iris Pigeot,Hynek Pikhart,Aida Pilav,Lorenza Pilotto,Francesco Pistelli,Freda Pitakaka,Aleksandra Piwońska,Pedro Plans-Rubio,Bee Koon Poh,Miquel Porta,Marileen L.P. Portegies,Dimitrios Poulimeneas,Rajendra Pradeepa,Mathur Prashant,Jacqueline F. Price,Maria Puiu,Margus Punab,Radwan Qasrawi,Mostafa Qorbani,Tran Quoc Bao,Ivana Radic,Ričardas Radišauskas,Mahmudur Rahman,Olli T. Raitakari,Manu Raj,Sudha Ramachandra Rao,Ambady Ramachandran,Jacqueline Ramke,Rafel Ramos,Sanjay Rampal,Finn Rasmussen,Josep Redon,Paul Ferdinand M. 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TL;DR: 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.