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Growth change in Polish women: Reduction of the secular trends?

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  • Monika Łopuszańska-Dawid
  • Alicja Szklarska

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The aim of the study was to analyse changes in the average height of adult Polish women born in 1931–2001 in the aspect of dynamically changing economic and socio-economic conditions of the living environment. An ethnically homogeneous group of 6,028 adult women from large Polish cities, born in 1931–2001, living between 1931 and 2020, were examined using the same research methods and research equipment. All women were divided into eight birth cohorts. The Kruskal-Wallis test and multiple regression analyses were used. Root Mean Square Standardized Effect (RMSSE), critical value of the test, and test power were calculated. The average height of women born during 70 years of the study increased by 9.63 cm, from 158.22 cm (SD = 5.57 cm) to 167.85 cm (SD = 6.91 cm) (H = 1084.84, p

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  • Monika Łopuszańska-Dawid & Alicja Szklarska, 2020. "Growth change in Polish women: Reduction of the secular trends?," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 15(11), pages 1-17, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:plo:pone00:0242074
    DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0242074
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    1. Monika Lopuszanska-Dawid, 2023. "Trends in Health Behavior of Polish Women in 1986–2021: The Importance of Socioeconomic Status," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 20(5), pages 1-24, February.
    2. Wroński, Marcin, 2023. "The full distribution of adult height in Poland: Cohorts born between 1920 and 1996. The biological cost of the economic transition," Economics & Human Biology, Elsevier, vol. 50(C).
    3. Bartowiak, Sylwia & Konarski, Jan M. & Strzelczyk, Ryszard & Malina, Robert M., 2024. "Secular change in heights of rural adults in west-central poland between 1986 and 2016: The transition from pre- to post-communism," Economics & Human Biology, Elsevier, vol. 53(C).
    4. Monika Lopuszanska-Dawid & Przemysław Kupis & Anna Lipowicz & Halina Kołodziej & Alicja Szklarska, 2022. "How Stress Is Related to Age, Education, Physical Activity, Body Mass Index, and Body Fat Percentage in Adult Polish Men?," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 19(19), pages 1-16, September.

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