About NCD-RisC
NCD Risk Factor Collaboration (NCD-RisC) is a network of health scientists around the world that provides rigorous and timely data on major risk factors for non-communicable diseases for all of the world’s countries.
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- 2020 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. Lancet
- 2020 Repositioning of the global epicentre of non-optimal cholesterol. Nature
- 2020 Trends in cardiometabolic risk factors in the Americas between 1980 and 2014: a pooled analysis of population-based surveys. Lancet Global Health
NCD-RisC in the News
- December 5, 2020 El Pais - ¿Cuánto hemos crecido? La mala nutrición genera una brecha de hasta 20 centímetros de altura entre países
- November 6, 2020 BBC - Poor diet: Children 20cm shorter as a result, analysis says
- November 6, 2020 Telegraph - UK at risk of becoming the short man of Europe because of poor diet, study reveals
- November 5, 2020 Guardian - Children in UK lag behind international counterparts in healthy development