Abstract
Regional Differences in Adult Body Height in Kosovo
Highlights
Researchers from Europe, the USA, and Japan were interested in trends in changes of body height in males, and the research was later extended to other regions throughout the world; the interest in the estimation of body height in males has a rather clear and long tradition, while the interest in body height in females has been recent (Popovic, 2018)
Since one part of Kosovo lies in the area of a mountain range known as the Dinaric Alps, it is essential to determine if the type of the terrain is the reason for this difference in the average height between the Kosovans and Albanians, or to determine if there was perhaps another reason, as the aim of this study is to analyse the average values of the body height in administrative regions of Kosovo
The average body height of the overall sample of male subjects was 179.52±5.96 centimetres, while the tallest subjects live in the central region of Kosovo (180.62±5.88 cm), the medium ones in the northern region (180.29±5.72 cm), shorter ones in the western region (179.±5.88 cm), those shorter than them in the southern region (179.15±5.56 cm), and the shortest ones live in the eastern region (177.68±6.65 cm) of Kosovo
Summary
Researchers from Europe, the USA, and Japan were interested in trends in changes of body height in males, and the research was later extended to other regions throughout the world; the interest in the estimation of body height in males has a rather clear and long tradition, while the interest in body height in females has been recent (Popovic, 2018). In most societies, being tall was in a high correlation with positive attitudes as far as the acceptance of a group is concerned, above all because being taller has meant being stronger, which was a significant factor in times of the turbulent history of development of humankind, contributing to survival (Popovic, 2018); these attitudes possibly remain on the territory of the region of the Western Balkans. Contemporary studies include increasing results on the average body height of modern nations; one of the most significant ones has been the research carried out by the NCD Risk Factor Collaboration (2016), due to its sample, which included 1472 populations, 200 countries, and 18.6 million participants. This study failed to include data on the average height of the population of Kosovo, a country
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