@misc{HermanussenIpsenMummetal.2016,
  author    = {Hermanussen, Michael and Ipsen, Josefin and Mumm, Rebekka and Assmann, Christian and Quitmann, Julia and Gomula, Aleksandra and Lehmann, Andreas and Jasch, Isabelle and Tassenaar, Vincent and Bogin, Barry and Satake, Takashi and Scheffler, Christiane and Nunez, Javier and Godina, Elena and Hardeland, Ruediger and Boldsen, Jesper L. and El-Shabrawi, Mortada and Elhusseini, Mona and Barbu, Carmen Gabriela and Pop, Ralucca and Soederhaell, Jani and Merker, Andrea and Swanson, James and Groth, Detlef},
  title     = {Stunted Growth. Proceedings of the 23rd Aschauer Soiree, Held at Aschauhof, Germany, November 7th 2015},
  series = {Pediatric Endocrinology Reviews},
  volume    = {13},
  journal   = {Pediatric Endocrinology Reviews},
  publisher = {Medical Media},
  address   = {Netanya},
  issn      = {1565-4753},
  pages     = {756 -- 767},
  year      = {2016},
  abstract  = {Twenty-four scientists met at Aschauhof, Altenhof, Germany, to discuss the associations between child growth and development, and nutrition, health, environment and psychology. Meta-analyses of body height, height variability and household inequality, in historic and modern growth studies published since 1794, highlighting the enormously flexible patterns of child and adolescent height and weight increments throughout history which do not only depend on genetics, prenatal development, nutrition, health, and economic circumstances, but reflect social interactions. A Quality of Life in Short Stature Youth Questionnaire was presented to cross-culturally assess health-related quality of life in children. Changes of child body proportions in recent history, the relation between height and longevity in historic Dutch samples and also measures of body height in skeletal remains belonged to the topics of this meeting. Bayesian approaches and Monte Carlo simulations offer new statistical tools for the study of human growth.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{MummIpsenHermanussen2016,
  author    = {Mumm, Rebekka and Ipsen, Marie Josephin and Hermanussen, Michael},
  title     = {The association of weight, weight variability and socioeconomic situation among children},
  series = {European journal of clinical nutrition},
  volume    = {70},
  journal   = {European journal of clinical nutrition},
  publisher = {Nature Publ. Group},
  address   = {London},
  issn      = {0954-3007},
  doi       = {10.1038/ejcn.2016.21},
  pages     = {650 -- 652},
  year      = {2016},
  abstract  = {BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVES: We studied the association of body weight and weight variability among populations from different geographic, historic and socioeconomic background. SUBJECTS/METHODS: We reanalyzed data from 833 growth studies of 78 different countries from 1920 to 2013. We used data from two age groups-infants (age 2 years) and juvenile (age 7 years)-and divided the studies into two geographic-socioeconomic groups. RESULTS: Multiple regressions showed significant interactions between weight, sex, historic year of study, continent and within-study standard deviation. Multiple regression revealed R-2 = 0.256 (P<0.001) at age 2 years and R-2 = 0.478 (P<0.001) at age 7 years. Although infants and juveniles in more affluent countries are heavier than children in less affluent countries (P<0.001), the within-study standard deviation of the two geographic-socioeconomic groups differs at age 7 years (P<0.001) but not at age 2 years (P>0.15). CONCLUSIONS: The general impression that prosperous conditions lead to growth improvements in height and weight appears to be true only at a large scale: wealthy countries have tall and heavy children. At small scale, the situation is different. Whereas economic and nutritional improvements can exhibit substantial effects in weight gains, the discrepancy between the within-population variation in height and weight strongly suggests that height gains and weight gains are subject to different regulations.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{MummHermanussenScheffler2016,
  author    = {Mumm, Rebekka and Hermanussen, Michael and Scheffler, Christiane},
  title     = {voice break as the marker of biological age},
  series = {Acta paediatrica : nurturing the child},
  volume    = {105},
  journal   = {Acta paediatrica : nurturing the child},
  publisher = {Wiley-Blackwell},
  address   = {Hoboken},
  issn      = {0803-5253},
  doi       = {10.1111/apa.13488},
  pages     = {e459 -- e463},
  year      = {2016},
  abstract  = {Aim: We aimed to develop the first references for body height, body weight and body mass index (BMI) for boys based on the individual developmental tempo with respect to their voice break status. Methods: We re-analysed data from the German Health Interview and Examination Survey for Children and Adolescents (KiGGS study) on body height, body weight and body mass index based on the voice break, or mutation, in 3956 boys aged 10-17 years. We used the LMS method to construct smoothed references centiles for the studied variables in premutational, mutational and postmutational boys. Results: Body height, body weight and BMI differed significantly (p < 0.001) between the different stages of voice break. On average, boys were 5.9 cm taller, 5.8 kg heavier and had a 0.7 kg/m(2) higher BMI with every higher stage of voice break. Currently used growth references for chronological age in comparison with maturity-related references led to an average of 5.4\% of boys being falsely classified as overweight.},
  language  = {en}
}