Body height in adult women and men in a cross-sectional population-based survey in Geneva: temporal trends, association with general health status and height loss after age 50.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

On the one hand, trends in average height in adulthood mirror changes in living standard and health status of a population and its subgroups; on the other hand, height in general, as well as the loss of height in older age in particular, are associated in different ways with outcomes for health. For these aspects, there is hardly any information for Switzerland based on representative and measured body height data.

Design

Repeated cross-sectional survey study.

Setting

Fully anonymised data from the representative population-based Geneva Bus Santé Study between 2005 and 2017 were analysed.

Methods

Data from N=8686 study participants were used in the trend analysis. Height was measured and sociodemographic information and self-rated health was collected

SUBMITTER: Schappi J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9272122 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature