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British five-year-olds up to 7cm shorter than western peers

21 June 2023

Professor Tim Cole (UCL GOS Institute of Child Health) explained that height is a clear indicator of living conditions and said wider data on the height of 19-year-olds suggested economic factors were to blame for British children's faltering height.

Read: Times (£), More: Mail Online (2), Guardian