highly significantp < 0.0001
Average heights have been increasing over the past few decades in several transitioning Asian populations, 17,24 probably as a result of improving childhood nutrition and health, 32 Few data are available for Thailand but, amongst the female TCS participants ( n = 47,314), the youngest group of women (15–19yrs) are on average 3 centimetres taller than the oldest group of women (50+yrs) and there is a highly significant trend of increasing height with decreasing age ( p < 0.0001).