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Height, weight and nutrition of youths vary widely around the globe, study says
Data on 65 million children in 200 countries show Europe has the world’s tallest children while southeast Asia, Latin America and East Africa have the shortest.
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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
Wellcome Trust, AstraZeneca Young Health Programme, EU.
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