PD Dr. phil. Kaspar Staub

Head Anthropometrics & Historical Epidemiology Group,
Institute of Evolutionary Medicine, University of Zurich

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Rising rural body-mass index is the main driver of the global obesity epidemic in adults, in Nature, 2019, 569, 260–264, (with NCD Risk Factor Collaboration). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-019-1171-x

Water, sanitation and mortality in Swiss towns in the context of urban renewal in the late nineteenth century, in The History of the Family, 2019, 24(2), 249–276, (with Joël Floris). https://doi.org/10.1080/1081602X.2019.1598460

From Undernutrition to Overnutrition: The Evolution of Overweight and Obesity among Young Men in Switzerland since the 19th Century, in Obesity Facts, 2016, 9(4), 259–272, (with Nicole Bender, Joël Floris, Christian Pfister, and Frank J. Rühli). https://doi.org/10.1159/000446966

Social inequality and the biological standard of living: An anthropometric analysis of Swiss conscription data, 1875–1950, in Economics & Human Biology, 2012, 10(2), 154–173, (with Tobias Schoch and Christian Pfister). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ehb.2011.05.001

BMI distribution/social stratification in Swiss conscripts from 1875 to present, in Eur J Clin Nutr, 2010, 64, 335–340, (with Frank J. Rühli, Ulrich Woitek, and Christian Pfister). https://doi.org/10.1038/ejcn.2010.7

The average height of 18- and 19-year-old conscripts (N=458,322) in Switzerland from 1992 to 2009, and the secular height trend since 1878, in Swiss Medical Weekly, 2011, 141, w13238, (with Frank J. Rühli, Ulrich Woitek, and Christian Pfister). https://doi.org/10.4414/smw.2011.13238

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