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    I thin this was done by Croatian and Montenigrin researchers. One problem I didn't like about this study is that they didn't test all Albanian areas which would probably increase the average.


    This study aimed to test average body heights in both the male and females of Kosovo, as well as the differences in heights of both sexes in relation to the Kosovo administrative regions. A total of 1623 subjects participated in the research: 830 boys and 793 girls all attending their final year of secondary school. The anthropometric measurements were taken for subjects of both sexes from five different administrative regions of Kosovo. The measurements of body heights were taken by trained measurers in conformity with the ISAK protocol. Means and standard deviations were calculated for ages and body heights, as were frequencies for the calculation of the density of very short and very tall subjects. The results indicated that the average height of the male population of Kosovo was 179.52±5.96 centimetres and of the female population 165.72±4.93 centimetres. These results classify both the male and female populations of Kosovo among the tallest in the world. Regarding the regional differences, some variations have been observed, and the differences in body heights among specific regions clearly confirm the assumption that the population living in the Dinaric Alps is taller in relation to the rest of the population, while the specific average height of the central region, where the capital city is located, reflects the expected situation conditioned by continuous migrations from all other parts of Kosovo, as well as the fact that there is a growing secular trend towards the territory of the capital city, due to better economic and living conditions.


    This research contributes to an update on adult human heights among subjects of both sexes in Kosovo, both globally and partially per administrative regions. The contribution is evident due to the lack of relevant data from previous research in this area, and the fact that a global study carried out by NCD Risk Factor Collaboration (2016) failed to include in its analyses the trend of changes in body height of the populationof Kosovo. Consequently, the aforementioned study excluded Kosovans as well as a few other countries from this research, which analysed 1472 populations in 200 countries and comprised more than 18.6 million participants.The results of this research study classify both males and females from Kosovo in a group of tall, but not the tallest nations in the world. The Kosovo males, with an average height of 179.52 centimetres, are not classified among the ten tallest nations in the world, but they are quite close to making the first ten due to a positive influence of the secular trend. If we classify the population living in the Dinaric Alps, the Kosovan males would be shorter than the 183.8 centimetres of the Bosnian and Herzegovinian male population (Gardasevic,Rasidagic, Krivokapic, Corluka, & Bjelica, 2017), the 183.36 centimetres of the Montenegrin male population (Popovic, 2017), the 182 centimetres of Serbian males (Popovic et al., 2013), the 180.5 centimetres of Croatian males (Juresa et al., 2012), or the 180.3 centimetres of Slovenian males (Starc & Strel, 2011). However, if we compare the average body height of males from Kosovo with the body heights of other nations, first of all with those in the region and wider, we observe interesting facts such as that the Kosovo male population is taller than the 178.1 centimetres of the Macedonian male population (Popovic, Bjelica, Georgijev, Krivokapic, &Milasinovic 2016), the 174 centimetres of Albanian males (Grasgrube, Cacek, Kalina, & Seberaet, 2014), the 178.8 centimetres of Austrian males (Hatton & Bray, 2010), the 177 centimetres of French males (Heroin,2003), or the 178.1 centimetres of Greek males (Papadimitriou et al., 2008). In contrast, the Kosovo female population, whose average height is 165.72 centimetres, is also one of the tallest nations in the world. If we classify the population living in the Dinaric Alps, the Kosovo female population is shorter than the 171.8 centimetres of the Bosnian and Herzegovinian females (Popovic et al., 2015), the 168.3 centimetres of the Montenegrin (Bjelica et al., 2012), the 167.4 centimetres of the Slovenians (Starc &Strel, 2011), the 166.8 centimetres of the Serbians (Popovic et al., 2013), or the 166.5 centimetres of the Croats(Juresa et al., 2012). Also, as in the case of the male populations, if we compare the average height of the Kosovo females with the average height of the other nations in the region and beyond, the results are intriguing. The female Kosovo population is taller than the 164.58 centimetres of the Macedonian females (Popovicet al., 2016), the 161.08 centimetres of Albanian females (Grasgrube et al., 2014), the 164.6 centimetres of French females (Herpin, 2003), the 162.5 centimetres of Italian females (Grasgrube et al., 2014), the 165.1centimetres of Polish females (Kulaga et al., 2011), or the 161.9 of Turkish females (Iseri & Arslan, 2009).Data on both male and female populations of Kosovo clearly confi rm its specifi c heights and the importanceof answering the question related to the extremely high values of average body heights of populations livingin the area of the Dinaric Alps, as well as the differences among the populations belonging to the same ethnicgroup living in Kosovo and Albania.It is the conclusion of the authors of the current research that the average body height of both gender-basedgroups from Kosovo in this study does not represent the maximum potential that might be reached by the population of Kosovo. Specifically, subjects from this study were boys and girls born in 1998. This year is intriguing as many inhabitants from the neighbouring countries might remember, but to remind those living inother parts of Europe or the world, at the end of the 20th century the children born in 1998 were growing upin a period of war and great crises which led to poor socio-economic conditions, which were reflected in the quality of life, and consequently also human body height (Popovic, 2018). Based on this, it can be concluded that the population of Kosovo still has not reached its maximum genetic potential, and the secular trend hasyet to be completed. In addition, it is realistic to expect that the coming generations will reach a height that will place them among the world’s tallest nations. Thus, the new generations will face a whole range of questions regarding the value of body height, all earlier discussed in detail. The average body height of an overall population is interesting when comparing nations. However, this study carries another, rather more interesting analysis that indicates differences among geographic areas of the Dinaric Alps and other mountain ranges where, as a rule, the tallest people in the world live.Th e population of the central region is the tallest (180.62 cm), which was unexpected but logical. The authors of this study did not expect to find the tallest subjects in the central region, as it is not situated in the Dinaric Alps, which is most probably due to migrations from other parts of Kosovo towards the capital city in recent decades, since the capital city offered better economic and living conditions. Still, more attention should be paid to better living conditions than to migrations, as there is no available data. However, it can be assumedthat people migrated from both Dinaric and other regions, so these results are explained by the secular trendin the central region where Pristina, the capital city of Kosovo, is situated. Th erefore, the capital city should beomitted from future analysis due to the previously mentioned facts, which are interfering with the hypothesesof this study. On the second, third and fourth places are, from the tallest to the shortest people, the northern(180.29 cm), western (179.89 cm) and southern region (179.15 cm), all positioned in the Dinaric Alps, whichconforms with the assumptions made by the authors. Th is represents evidence that the inhabitants from theDinaric Alps belong to an extremely tall population as far as the average height is concerned. However, it




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    It would be interesting to test the averages of western Kosovo with averages of places like Tropoje and Malesi e Madhe.

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