List of works - Kaspar Staub

"From growth in height to growth in breadth": the changing body shape of Swiss conscripts since the late 19th century and possible endocrine explanations.

scientific article published on 15 April 2013

A tall order: Small area mapping and modelling of adult height among Swiss male conscripts.

scientific article

Adolescent growth: genes, hormones and the peer group. Proceedings of the 20th Aschauer Soiree, held at Glücksburg castle, Germany, 15th to 17th November 2013.

scientific article published in March 2014

Associations between anthropometric indices, blood pressure and physical fitness performance in young Swiss men: a cross-sectional study.

scientific article

Body height and mortality - mortality follow-up of four Swiss surveys.

scientific article published on June 2017

Body height and waist circumference of young Swiss men as assessed by 3D laser-based photonic scans and by manual anthropometric measurements

scientific article published on 12 December 2019

Body height in adult women and men in a cross-sectional population-based survey in Geneva: temporal trends, association with general health status and height loss after age 50

scientific article published on 8 July 2022

Body height of mummified pharaohs supports historical suggestions of sibling marriages.

scientific article published on 27 April 2015

Changes in biological pathways during 6,000 years of civilization in Europe

scientific article published on 01 January 2019

Children's dietary assessment and promotion: The Swiss situation

scientific article published on 29 May 2020

Clash of the pandemics - At least 150'000 adults in Switzerland suffer from obesity grades 2 or 3 and are thus at elevated risk for severe COVID-19

scientific article published in 2020

Clustering of sociodemographic and lifestyle factors among adults with excess weight in a multilingual country

scientific article published on 12 January 2019

Comparison of 3D laser-based photonic scans and manual anthropometric measurements of body size and shape in a validation study of 123 young Swiss men

scientific article

Development of physical fitness performance in young Swiss men from 2006 to 2015

scientific article published on 24 January 2019

Dilemmas in choosing and using growth charts.

scientific article published on March 2012

Down memory lane: Unprecedented strong public and scientific interest in the "Spanish flu" 1918/1919 during the COVID-19 pandemic

scientific article published on 18 September 2020

Filling the weight gap: Estimating body weight and BMI using height, chest and upper arm circumference of Swiss conscripts in the first half of the 20th century

scientific article published on 11 May 2020

Final height, target height and the community

scientific article published in May 2014

Finding big shots: small-area mapping and spatial modelling of obesity among Swiss male conscripts.

scientific article

Fish consumption is associated with school performance in children in a non-linear way: Results from the German cohort study KiGGS

scientific article published on 23 December 2019

From Undernutrition to Overnutrition: The Evolution of Overweight and Obesity among Young Men in Switzerland since the 19th Century

scientific article published on 20 August 2016

From left-skewness to symmetry: how body-height distribution among Swiss conscripts has changed shape since the late 19th century.

scientific article published on 26 August 2014

Have Swiss adult males and females stopped growing taller? Evidence from the population-based nutrition survey menuCH, 2014/2015

scientific article published on 28 March 2019

Health Status of Young Men in Switzerland: Monitoring Results from Conscription

scientific article published on October 2015

Health and lifespan of Swiss men born in an alpine region in 1905–1907

scientific article published on 25 July 2022

Health of neonates born in the maternity hospital in Bern, Switzerland, 1880-1900 and 1914-1922

scientific article published in 2023

Height loss in adulthood is associated with health outcomes in later life in men and women enrolled in the 1946 UK Birth Cohort (NSHD)

scientific article published on 5 November 2023

Hemoglobin concentration of young men at residential altitudes between 200 and 2000 m mirrors Switzerland's topography

scientific article published on 01 March 2020

Historically High Excess Mortality During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Switzerland, Sweden, and Spain

scientific article published in April 2022

Impact of World War 1 on placenta weight, birth weight and other anthropometric parameters of neonatal health

scientific article published on 10 July 2020

Increasing variability of body mass and health correlates in Swiss conscripts, a possible role of relaxed natural selection?

scientific article

Individual development and potential determinants of excess weight in children and adolescents: a longitudinal study.

scientific article published on 25 September 2017

Influence of network properties on a migration induced secular height trend by Monte Carlo simulation

scientific article published on 01 November 2019

Intergenerational transmission of height in a historical population: From taller mothers to larger offspring at birth (and as adults)

Investigating survivorship bias: the case of the 1918 flu pandemic

scientific article published on 10 September 2021

Ladies first: Female and male adult height in Switzerland, 1770-1930.

scientific article published on 16 February 2018

Lessons from history of socioeconomic improvements: a new approach to treating multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis

scientific article published on 8 October 2013

Mindful eating and common diet programs lower body weight similarly: Systematic review and meta-analysis

scientific article published on 01 August 2019

Modern diet and metabolic variance--a recipe for disaster?

scientific article

Monte Carlo simulation of body height in a spatial network

scientific article published on 6 April 2016

Monte Carlo simulation of body height in a spatial network.

scientific article published in June 2016

Multiple measures derived from 3D photonic body scans improve predictions of fat and muscle mass in young Swiss men

scientific article published on 11 June 2020

Multivariable analysis of total cholesterol levels in male Swiss Armed Forces conscripts 2006-2012 (N = 174,872).

scientific article published on 17 February 2016

Pandemic excess mortality in Spain, Sweden, and Switzerland during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 was at its highest since 1918

scientific article published on 13 August 2021

Public Health Interventions, Epidemic Growth, and Regional Variation of the 1918 Influenza Pandemic Outbreak in a Swiss Canton and Its Greater Regions

scientific article published in April 2021

Reinfections and Cross-Protection in the 1918/19 Influenza Pandemic: Revisiting a Survey Among Male and Female Factory Workers

scientific article published in 2023

Residential Altitude Associates With Endurance but Not Muscle Power in Young Swiss Men

scientific article published on 23 July 2020

Secular trends in stature of late 20th century white South Africans and two European populations

scientific article published on 7 October 2017

Skeletal robustness and bone strength as measured by anthropometry and ultrasonography as a function of physical activity in young adults.

scientific article published on 28 January 2014

Socioeconomic, temporal and regional variation in body mass index among 188,537 Swiss male conscripts born between 1986 and 1992.

scientific article

Spatial Association of Food Sales in Supermarkets with the Mean BMI of Young Men: An Ecological Study

scientific article published on 08 March 2019

Spatial pattern of all cause excess mortality in Swiss districts during the pandemic years 1890, 1918 and 2020

scientific article published on 13 February 2024

Temporal trends, regional variation and socio-economic differences in height, BMI and body proportions among German conscripts, 1956-2010.

scientific article

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.

scientific article published on 30 July 2011

The impact of physical connectedness on body height in Swiss conscripts.

scientific article

The remarkable ups and downs of birth rate in Switzerland 2020 to 2023 in a historical context

scientific article published on 5 December 2023

The role of body height as a co-factor of excess weight in Switzerland

scientific article published in August 2022

Water, sanitation and mortality in Swiss towns in the context of urban renewal in the late nineteenth century

scientific article published on 3 April 2019

List of works by Kaspar Staub

"From growth in height to growth in breadth": the changing body shape of Swiss conscripts since the late 19th century and possible endocrine explanations.

A tall order: Small area mapping and modelling of adult height among Swiss male conscripts.

Adolescent growth: genes, hormones and the peer group. Proceedings of the 20th Aschauer Soiree, held at Glücksburg castle, Germany, 15th to 17th November 2013.

Associations between anthropometric indices, blood pressure and physical fitness performance in young Swiss men: a cross-sectional study.

Body height and mortality - mortality follow-up of four Swiss surveys.

Body height and waist circumference of young Swiss men as assessed by 3D laser-based photonic scans and by manual anthropometric measurements

Body height in adult women and men in a cross-sectional population-based survey in Geneva: temporal trends, association with general health status and height loss after age 50

Body height of mummified pharaohs supports historical suggestions of sibling marriages.

Changes in biological pathways during 6,000 years of civilization in Europe

Children's dietary assessment and promotion: The Swiss situation

Clash of the pandemics - At least 150'000 adults in Switzerland suffer from obesity grades 2 or 3 and are thus at elevated risk for severe COVID-19

Clustering of sociodemographic and lifestyle factors among adults with excess weight in a multilingual country

Comparison of 3D laser-based photonic scans and manual anthropometric measurements of body size and shape in a validation study of 123 young Swiss men

Development of physical fitness performance in young Swiss men from 2006 to 2015

Dilemmas in choosing and using growth charts.

Down memory lane: Unprecedented strong public and scientific interest in the "Spanish flu" 1918/1919 during the COVID-19 pandemic

Filling the weight gap: Estimating body weight and BMI using height, chest and upper arm circumference of Swiss conscripts in the first half of the 20th century

Final height, target height and the community

Finding big shots: small-area mapping and spatial modelling of obesity among Swiss male conscripts.

Fish consumption is associated with school performance in children in a non-linear way: Results from the German cohort study KiGGS

From Undernutrition to Overnutrition: The Evolution of Overweight and Obesity among Young Men in Switzerland since the 19th Century

From left-skewness to symmetry: how body-height distribution among Swiss conscripts has changed shape since the late 19th century.

Have Swiss adult males and females stopped growing taller? Evidence from the population-based nutrition survey menuCH, 2014/2015

Health Status of Young Men in Switzerland: Monitoring Results from Conscription

Health and lifespan of Swiss men born in an alpine region in 1905–1907

Health of neonates born in the maternity hospital in Bern, Switzerland, 1880-1900 and 1914-1922

Height loss in adulthood is associated with health outcomes in later life in men and women enrolled in the 1946 UK Birth Cohort (NSHD)

Hemoglobin concentration of young men at residential altitudes between 200 and 2000 m mirrors Switzerland's topography

Historically High Excess Mortality During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Switzerland, Sweden, and Spain

Impact of World War 1 on placenta weight, birth weight and other anthropometric parameters of neonatal health

Increasing variability of body mass and health correlates in Swiss conscripts, a possible role of relaxed natural selection?

Individual development and potential determinants of excess weight in children and adolescents: a longitudinal study.

Influence of network properties on a migration induced secular height trend by Monte Carlo simulation

Intergenerational transmission of height in a historical population: From taller mothers to larger offspring at birth (and as adults)

Investigating survivorship bias: the case of the 1918 flu pandemic

Ladies first: Female and male adult height in Switzerland, 1770-1930.

Lessons from history of socioeconomic improvements: a new approach to treating multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis

Mindful eating and common diet programs lower body weight similarly: Systematic review and meta-analysis

Modern diet and metabolic variance--a recipe for disaster?

Monte Carlo simulation of body height in a spatial network

Monte Carlo simulation of body height in a spatial network.

Multiple measures derived from 3D photonic body scans improve predictions of fat and muscle mass in young Swiss men

Multivariable analysis of total cholesterol levels in male Swiss Armed Forces conscripts 2006-2012 (N = 174,872).

Pandemic excess mortality in Spain, Sweden, and Switzerland during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 was at its highest since 1918

Public Health Interventions, Epidemic Growth, and Regional Variation of the 1918 Influenza Pandemic Outbreak in a Swiss Canton and Its Greater Regions

Reinfections and Cross-Protection in the 1918/19 Influenza Pandemic: Revisiting a Survey Among Male and Female Factory Workers

Residential Altitude Associates With Endurance but Not Muscle Power in Young Swiss Men

Secular trends in stature of late 20th century white South Africans and two European populations

Skeletal robustness and bone strength as measured by anthropometry and ultrasonography as a function of physical activity in young adults.

Socioeconomic, temporal and regional variation in body mass index among 188,537 Swiss male conscripts born between 1986 and 1992.

Spatial Association of Food Sales in Supermarkets with the Mean BMI of Young Men: An Ecological Study

Spatial pattern of all cause excess mortality in Swiss districts during the pandemic years 1890, 1918 and 2020

Temporal trends, regional variation and socio-economic differences in height, BMI and body proportions among German conscripts, 1956-2010.

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.

The impact of physical connectedness on body height in Swiss conscripts.

The remarkable ups and downs of birth rate in Switzerland 2020 to 2023 in a historical context

The role of body height as a co-factor of excess weight in Switzerland

Water, sanitation and mortality in Swiss towns in the context of urban renewal in the late nineteenth century