Diminishing benefits of urban living for children and adolescents' growth and development

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Alternative codes found

RIV/00023761:_____/23:N0000001 RIV/00064190:_____/23:10001123 RIV/00023001:_____/23:00084093

Result on the web

<a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-05772-8" target="_blank" >https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-05772-8</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-05772-8" target="_blank" >10.1038/s41586-023-05772-8</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Diminishing benefits of urban living for children and adolescents' growth and development

Original language description

Optimal growth and development in childhood and adolescence is crucial for lifelong health and well-being(1-6). Here we used data from 2,325 population-based studies, with measurements of height and weight from 71million participants, to report the height and body-mass index (BMI) of children and adolescents aged 5-19years 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 &lt; 1.1kgm(-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.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

30304 - Public and environmental health

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2023

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Nature

ISSN

0028-0836

e-ISSN

1476-4687

Volume of the periodical

615

Issue of the periodical within the volume

7954

Country of publishing house

US - UNITED STATES

Number of pages

10

Pages from-to

874-883

UT code for WoS article

001023407200001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

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