"Body Height" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
The distance from the sole to the crown of the head with body standing on a flat surface and fully extended.
| Descriptor ID |
D001827
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| MeSH Number(s) |
E01.370.600.115.100.160.100 E05.041.124.160.500 G07.100.100.160.100 G07.345.249.314.100
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| Concept/Terms |
Body Height- Body Height
- Body Heights
- Height, Body
- Heights, Body
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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Body Height" by people in this website by year, and whether "Body Height" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 1994 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 1999 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2000 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 2002 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2005 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2007 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2008 | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| 2009 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| 2010 | 3 | 2 | 5 |
| 2012 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2013 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 2014 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2015 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2016 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2018 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2020 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Body Height" by people in Profiles.
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The Accuracy of Self-Reported Body Weight Is High but Dependent on Recent Weight Change and Negative Affect in Teenage Girls. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2020 11 06; 17(21).
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Bone Mineral Density in Older U.S. Filipino, Chinese, Japanese, and White Women. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2020 11; 68(11):2656-2661.
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Stratified Probabilistic Bias Analysis for Body Mass Index-related Exposure Misclassification in Postmenopausal Women. Epidemiology. 2018 09; 29(5):604-613.
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PCORnet Antibiotics and Childhood Growth Study: Process for Cohort Creation and Cohort Description. Acad Pediatr. 2018 07; 18(5):569-576.
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Rare and low-frequency coding variants alter human adult height. Nature. 2017 02 09; 542(7640):186-190.
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Longitudinal Associations of Phthalate Exposures During Childhood and Body Size Measurements in Young Girls. Epidemiology. 2016 07; 27(4):492-9.
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Interferon-beta exposure during first trimester is safe in women with multiple sclerosis-A prospective cohort study from the German Multiple Sclerosis and Pregnancy Registry. Mult Scler. 2016 05; 22(6):801-9.
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Thyroid Antagonists (Perchlorate, Thiocyanate, and Nitrate) and Childhood Growth in a Longitudinal Study of U.S. Girls. Environ Health Perspect. 2016 Apr; 124(4):542-9.
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Methodological Considerations in Estimation of Phenotype Heritability Using Genome-Wide SNP Data, Illustrated by an Analysis of the Heritability of Height in a Large Sample of African Ancestry Adults. PLoS One. 2015; 10(6):e0131106.
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Accuracy of parent-reported information for estimating prevalence of overweight and obesity in a race-ethnically diverse pediatric clinic population aged 3 to 12. BMC Pediatr. 2015 Feb 12; 15:5.