@article{FriebelHermanussenScheffler2019, author = {Friebel, Francis and Hermanussen, Michael and Scheffler, Christiane}, title = {Popular ideas and convictions about factors influencing the growth as well as the adult height of children}, series = {Journal of biological and clinical anthropology : Anthropologischer Anzeiger ; Mitteilungsorgan der Gesellschaft f{\"u}r Anthropologie}, volume = {76}, journal = {Journal of biological and clinical anthropology : Anthropologischer Anzeiger ; Mitteilungsorgan der Gesellschaft f{\"u}r Anthropologie}, number = {5}, publisher = {Schweizerbart}, address = {Stuttgart}, issn = {0003-5548}, doi = {10.1127/anthranz/2019/0972}, pages = {365 -- 370}, year = {2019}, abstract = {Common knowledge suggests that growth in height is influenced by nutrition, genetics, health, and environmental and general living conditions. In addition, modern studies showed that also social mobility and dominance within the social group, may significantly affect adolescent growth and final height. The aim of the study was to investigate the impact of popular ideas and beliefs about factors influencing the growth on the biology of child and adolescent growth. We hypothesized that these beliefs are culture-specific and age-dependent. We investigated 307 French and 315 German participants of all age-groups. We collected polarising statements by questionnaire that the participants had to agree or disagree on. French participants see a connection between nutrition and the body height of children. This is different in Germany and may be due to the fact that French food culture is more traditional. Genetic factors were generally overestimated and considered as the most important determinants of longitudinal-growth. The participants denied an influence of disease and social status. Participants over 35 years of age considered adult height to be independent of environmental factors. In conclusion, popular beliefs partly depend on culture and appear to change with age as a result of growing experience.}, language = {en} } @article{HermanussenGrothScheffler2020, author = {Hermanussen, Michael and Groth, Detlef and Scheffler, Christiane}, title = {Statistical approaches to developmental and growth data of children and adolescents}, series = {Journal of biological and clinical anthropology : Anthropologischer Anzeiger ; Mitteilungsorgan der Gesellschaft f{\"u}r Anthropologie}, volume = {77}, journal = {Journal of biological and clinical anthropology : Anthropologischer Anzeiger ; Mitteilungsorgan der Gesellschaft f{\"u}r Anthropologie}, number = {5}, publisher = {Schweizerbart}, address = {Stuttgart}, issn = {0003-5548}, doi = {10.1127/anthranz/2020/1302}, pages = {355 -- 357}, year = {2020}, language = {en} } @misc{HermanussenSchefflerGrothetal.2019, author = {Hermanussen, Michael and Scheffler, Christiane and Groth, Detlef and Bogin, Barry}, title = {Student work on trends in infant and child growth}, series = {Journal of biological and clinical anthropology : Anthropologischer Anzeiger : Mitteilungsorgan der Gesellschaft f{\"u}r Anthropologie}, volume = {76}, journal = {Journal of biological and clinical anthropology : Anthropologischer Anzeiger : Mitteilungsorgan der Gesellschaft f{\"u}r Anthropologie}, number = {5}, publisher = {Schweizerbart}, address = {Stuttgart}, issn = {0003-5548}, doi = {10.1127/anthranz/2019/1052}, pages = {363 -- 364}, year = {2019}, language = {en} } @misc{HermanussenSchefflerMartinetal.2021, author = {Hermanussen, Michael and Scheffler, Christiane and Martin, Lidia and Groth, Detlef and Waxmonsky, James G. and Swanson, James and Nowak-Szczepanska, Natalia and Gomula, Aleksandra and Apanasewicz, Anna and Konarski, Jan M. and Malina, Robert M. and Bartkowiak, Sylwia and Lebedeva, Lidia and Suchomlinov, Andrej and Konstantinov, Vsevolod and Blum, Werner and Limony, Yehuda and Chakraborty, Raja and Kirchengast, Sylvia and Tutkuviene, Janina and Jakimaviciene, Egle Marija and Cepuliene, Ramune and Franken, Daniel and Navazo, B{\´a}rbara and Moelyo, Annang G. and Satake, Takashi and Koziel, Slawomir}, title = {Growth, Nutrition and Economy}, series = {Human Biology and Public Health}, volume = {2021}, journal = {Human Biology and Public Health}, number = {1}, editor = {Scheffler, Christiane and Koziel, Slawomir and Hermanussen, Michael and Bogin, Barry}, publisher = {Universit{\"a}tsverlag Potsdam}, address = {Potsdam}, issn = {2748-9957}, doi = {10.52905/hbph.v1.1}, pages = {1 -- 13}, year = {2021}, abstract = {Twenty-three scientists met at Krobielowice, Poland to discuss the role of growth, nutrition and economy on body size. Contrasting prevailing concepts, re-analyses of studies in Indonesian and Guatemalan school children with high prevalence of stunting failed to provide evidence for an association between nutritional status and body height. Direct effects of parental education on growth that were not transmitted via nutrition were shown in Indian datasets using network analysis and novel statistical methods (St. Nicolas House Analysis) that translate correlation matrices into network graphs. Data on Polish children suggest significant impact of socioeconomic sensitivity on child growth, with no effect of maternal money satisfaction. Height and maturation tempo affect the position of a child among its peers. Correlations also exist between mood disorders and height. Secular changes in height and weight varied across decades independent of population size. Historic and recent Russian data showed that height of persons whose fathers performed manual work were on average four cm shorter than persons whose fathers were high-degree specialists. Body height, menarcheal age, and body proportions are sensitive to socioeconomic variables. Additional topics included delayed motherhood and its associations with newborn size; geographic and socioeconomic indicators related to low birth weight, prematurity and stillbirth rate; data on anthropometric history of Brazil, 1850-1950; the impact of central nervous system stimulants on the growth of children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder; and pituitary development and growth hormone secretion. Final discussions debated on reverse causality interfering between social position, and adolescent growth and developmental tempo.}, language = {en} } @article{KawasakiAkamatsuOmorietal.2020, author = {Kawasaki, Yui and Akamatsu, Rie and Omori, Mika and Sugawara, Masumi and Yamazaki, Yoko and Matsumoto, Satoko and Fujiwara, Yoko and Iwakabe, Shigeru and Kobayashi, Tetsuyuki}, title = {Development and validation of the Expanded Mindful Eating Scale}, series = {International journal of health care quality assurance}, volume = {33}, journal = {International journal of health care quality assurance}, number = {4-5}, publisher = {Emerald Group Publishing Limited}, address = {Bingley}, issn = {0952-6862}, doi = {10.1108/IJHCQA-01-2020-0009}, pages = {309 -- 321}, year = {2020}, abstract = {Purpose To develop and validate the Expanded Mindful Eating Scale (EMES), an expanded mindful eating model created for the promotion of health and sustainability. Design/methodology/approach A cross-sectional study using self-administered questionnaire surveys on Ochanomizu Health Study (OHS) was conducted. The survey was provided to 1,388 female university students in Tokyo, Japan. Exploratory factor analysis (EFA), confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) and a partial correlation analysis were used to confirm construct and criterion validity. Internal consistency of the EMES was confirmed to calculate Cronbach's alpha. Findings The response rate was 38.7 \% (n = 537). Mean BMI was 20.21 +/- 2.12, and 18.8\% of them were classified as "lean" (BMI < 18.5). The authors listed 25 items and obtained a final factor structure of five factors and 20 items, as a result of EFA. Through CFA, the authors obtained the following fit indices for a final model: GFI = 0.914, AGFI = 0.890, CFI = 0.870 and RMSEA = 0.061. The total EMES score was significantly correlated with BMI, mindfulness, body dissatisfaction, drive for thinness and life satisfaction (r = -0.138, -0.315, -0.339, -0.281 and 0.149,p < 0.01, respectively). Cronbach's alpha for all items in this scale was 0.687. Practical implications The authors suggest the possibility that practitioners and researchers of mindful eating that includes this new concept can use authors' novel scale as an effective measurement tool. Originality/value The EMES, which can multidimensionally measure the concept of the expanded model of mindful eating was first developed in this study.}, language = {en} } @article{MummScheffler2019, author = {Mumm, Rebekka and Scheffler, Christiane}, title = {Lack of evidence of nutritional influence on height in four low and middle-income countries}, series = {Journal of biological and clinical anthropology : Anthropologischer Anzeiger ; Mitteilungsorgan der Gesellschaft f{\"u}r Anthropologie}, volume = {76}, journal = {Journal of biological and clinical anthropology : Anthropologischer Anzeiger ; Mitteilungsorgan der Gesellschaft f{\"u}r Anthropologie}, number = {5}, publisher = {Schweizerbart}, address = {Stuttgart}, issn = {0003-5548}, doi = {10.1127/anthranz/2019/0988}, pages = {421 -- 432}, year = {2019}, abstract = {'Nutrition influences height' has been a common concept for the last decades. Recently, contradictory results occurred when studying the effectiveness of nutritional interventions, questioning the interaction of nutrition and height. Therefore, we hypothesize that, independently of population/country, nutrition does not affect height in children and adolescents. We analyzed data from the study "Young Lives" which was performed in Ethiopia, India, Peru, and Vietnam to describe the health situation of children. We used linear mixed effect models to analyze the influence of nutrition on height. Furthermore, we used Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) to test if the commonly assumed hypothetical interaction of height and nutrition can be supported by data from low and middle-income countries. Estimates for nutrition on height of linear mixed effect models were about zero and randomly significant or non-significant in all analyzed countries. Furthermore, SEM led to the rejection of the 'nutrition influences height'-hypothesis, as data did not support the models based on this hypothesis. We do not find evidence for a nutritional influence on height in children and adolescents from low and middle-income countries. The widespread assumption that inadequate diet is reflected in short stature, which all modern nutritional interventions are based on, needs to be critically reviewed.}, language = {en} } @article{ReibisVoeller2020, author = {Reibis, Rona K. and V{\"o}ller, Heinz}, title = {Non pharmacological secondary prevention and rehabilitation}, series = {Aktuelle Kardiologie}, volume = {9}, journal = {Aktuelle Kardiologie}, number = {03}, publisher = {Thieme}, address = {Stuttgart}, issn = {2193-5203}, doi = {10.1055/a-1185-8460}, pages = {297 -- 302}, year = {2020}, abstract = {Die Sekund{\"a}rpr{\"a}vention der koronaren Herzkrankheit umfasst einerseits eine pharmakologische, andererseits eine lebensstilbasierte S{\"a}ule, die idealerweise interagieren und sich potenzieren. Neben der medikament{\"o}sen Blutdruck- und Lipideinstellung auf leitlinienorientierte Zielwerte erm{\"o}glichen moderne Antidiabetika eine Optimierung des glukometabolischen Kontinuums und eine Prognosebesserung. Die Lebensstiloptimierung setzt sich aus koronarprotektiver Ern{\"a}hrung, einer individualisierten Trainingstherapie, einer konsequenten Nikotinkarenz und stressreduzierenden Maßnahmen zusammen. Die kardiologische Rehabilitation (Phase II) schließt sich idealerweise unmittelbar einem station{\"a}ren Aufenthalt wegen eines akuten Koronarereignisses an, kann aber auch im Rahmen einer stabilen Koronarsituation im Rahmen eines allgemeinen Antragsverfahrens durchgef{\"u}hrt werden. Randomisierte und prospektiv angelegte Interventionsstudien belegen die prognostische Wertigkeit der kardiologischen Rehabilitation auch im Zeitalter akuter Revaskularisationstherapie mit 24-h-PCI und moderner Pharmakotherapie.}, language = {de} } @article{RoeslerSchefflerHermanussen2023, author = {R{\"o}sler, Antonia and Scheffler, Christiane and Hermanussen, Michael}, title = {No evidence of growth impairment after forced migration in Polish school children after World War II}, series = {Human biology and public health}, volume = {1}, journal = {Human biology and public health}, publisher = {Universit{\"a}tsverlag Potsdam}, address = {Potsdam}, issn = {2748-9957}, doi = {10.52905/hbph2023.1.68}, pages = {8}, year = {2023}, abstract = {Background: Migration is omnipresent. It can come hand in hand with emotional stress which is known to influence the growth of children. Objective: The aim of this study was to analyse whether type of migration (forced or voluntary) and the geographic direction had influenced the growth of Polish children after World War II. Sample and Methods: A sub dataset of 2,208 individuals between the ages of 2-20, created from data of the 2nd Polish Anthropological Survey carried out in 1966-1969, including anthropometrical data and social and demographic information based on questionnaire, was used to analyse migration effects. Results: No association could be found between the direction of migration and the height of the children. The confidence intervals of the means of all classified migration categories overlap significantly and the effect size of the influence of migration category on height is ds=.140, which is too low to see any effects, even if there were one. Conclusion: Neither forced nor voluntary migration in Poland after World War II led to a change in height in children of migrating families.}, language = {en} } @article{SchefflerKruetzfeldtDasguptaetal.2018, author = {Scheffler, Christiane and Kruetzfeldt, Louisa-Marie and Dasgupta, Parasmani and Hermanussen, Michael}, title = {No association between fat tissue and height in 5019 children and adolescents, measured between 1982 and 2011 in Kolkata/India}, series = {Journal of biological and clinical anthropology}, volume = {74}, journal = {Journal of biological and clinical anthropology}, number = {5}, publisher = {Schweizerbart}, address = {Stuttgart}, issn = {0003-5548}, doi = {10.1127/anthranz/2018/0827}, pages = {403 -- 411}, year = {2018}, abstract = {Body height has traditionally been looked upon as a mirror of the condition of society, short height being an indicator of poor nutritional status, poor education, and low social status and income. This view has recently been questioned. We aimed to quantify the effects of nutrition, education, sibship size, and household income, factors that are conventionally considered to be related to child growth, on body height of children and adolescents raised under urban Indian conditions. Sample and methods: We re-analyzed several anthropometric measurements and questionnaires with questions on sibship size, fathers' and mother's education, and monthly family expenditure, from two cross-sectional growth studies performed in Kolkata, India. The first Kolkata Growth Study (KG1) took place in 1982-1983, with data on 825 Bengali boys aged 7 to 16 years; and the second Kolkata Growth Study (KG2) between 1999 and 2011 with data of 1999 boys aged 7 to 21 years from Bengali Hindu families, and data of 2195 girls obtained between 2005 and 2011. Results: Indian children showed positive insignificant secular trends in height and a significant secular trend in weight and BMI between between 1982 and 2011. Yet, multiple regression analysis failed to detect an association between nutritional status (expressed in terms of skinfold thickness), monthly family expenditure and sibship size with body height of these children. The analysis only revealed an influence of parental education on female, but not on male height. Conclusion: We failed to detect influences of nutrition, sibship size, and monthly family expenditure on body height in a large sample of children and adolescents raised in Kolkata, India, between 1982 and 2011. We found a mild positive association between parental education and girls' height. The data question current concepts regarding the impact of nutrition, and household and economic factors on growth, but instead underscore the effect of parental education.}, language = {en} } @article{WackerMartinCreuzburg2012, author = {Wacker, Alexander and Martin-Creuzburg, Dominik}, title = {Biochemical nutrient requirements of the rotifer Brachionus calyciflorus co-limitation by sterols and amino acids}, series = {Functional ecology : an official journal of the British Ecological Society}, volume = {26}, journal = {Functional ecology : an official journal of the British Ecological Society}, number = {5}, publisher = {Wiley-Blackwell}, address = {Hoboken}, issn = {0269-8463}, doi = {10.1111/j.1365-2435.2012.02047.x}, pages = {1135 -- 1143}, year = {2012}, abstract = {It has been proposed that growth and reproduction of animals is frequently limited by multiple nutrients simultaneously. To improve our understanding of the consequences of multiple nutrient limitations (i.e. co-limitation) for the performance of animals, we conducted standardized population growth experiments using an important aquatic consumer, the rotifer Brachionus calyciflorus. We compared nutrient profiles (sterols, fatty acids and amino acids) of rotifers and their diets to reveal consumerdiet imbalances and thus potentially limiting nutrients. In concomitant growth experiments, we directly supplemented potentially limiting substances (sterols, fatty acids, amino acids) to a nutrient-deficient diet, the cyanobacterium Synechococcus elongatus, and recorded population growth rates. The results from the supplementation experiments corroborated the nutrient limitations predicted by assessing consumerdiet imbalances, but provided more detailed information on co-limiting nutrients. While the fatty acid deficiency of the cyanobacterium appeared to be of minor importance, the addition of both cholesterol and certain amino acids (leucine and isoleucine) improved population growth rates of rotifers, indicating a simultaneous limitation by sterols and amino acids. Our results add to growing evidence that consumers frequently face multiple nutrient limitations and suggest that the concept of co-limitation has to be considered in studies assessing nutrient-limited growth responses of consumers.}, language = {en} } @misc{WagnerHillebrandWackeretal.2013, author = {Wagner, Nicole D. and Hillebrand, Helmut and Wacker, Alexander and Frost, Paul C.}, title = {Nutritional indicators and their uses in ecology}, series = {Ecology letters}, volume = {16}, journal = {Ecology letters}, number = {4}, publisher = {Wiley-Blackwell}, address = {Hoboken}, issn = {1461-023X}, doi = {10.1111/ele.12067}, pages = {535 -- 544}, year = {2013}, abstract = {The nutrition of animal consumers is an important regulator of ecological processes due to its effects on their physiology, life-history and behaviour. Understanding the ecological effects of poor nutrition depends on correctly diagnosing the nature and strength of nutritional limitation. Despite the need to assess nutritional limitation, current approaches to delineating nutritional constraints can be non-specific and imprecise. Here, we consider the need and potential to develop new complementary approaches to the study of nutritional constraints on animal consumers by studying and using a suite of established and emerging biochemical and molecular responses. These nutritional indicators include gene expression, transcript regulators, protein profiling and activity, and gross biochemical and elemental composition. The potential applications of nutritional indicators to ecological studies are highlighted to demonstrate the value that this approach would have to future studies in community and ecosystem ecology.}, language = {en} }