61184
2020
2020
eng
359
374
16
5
77
article
Schweizerbart science publishers
Stuttgart
1
2020-08-26
2020-12-01
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Traumatized women’s infants are bigger than children of mothers without traumas
Life history theory predicts that experiencing stress during the early period of life will result in accelerated growth and earlier maturation. Indeed, animal and some human studies documented a faster pace of growth in the offspring of stressed mothers. Recent advances in epigenetics suggest that the effects of early developmental stress might be passed across the generations. However, evidence for such intergenerational transmission is scarce, at least in humans. Here we report the results of the study investigating the association between childhood trauma in mothers and physical growth in their children during the first months of life. Anthropometric and psychological data were collected from 99 mothers and their exclusively breastfed children at the age of 5 months. The mothers completed the Early Life Stress Questionnaire to assess childhood trauma. The questionnaire includes questions about the most traumatic events that they had experienced before the age of 12 years. Infant growth was evaluated based on the anthropometric measurements of weight, length, and head circumference. Also, to control for the size of maternal investment, the composition of breast milk samples taken at the time of infant anthropometric measurements was investigated. The children of mothers with higher early life stress tended to have higher weight and bigger head circumference. The association between infant anthropometrics and early maternal stress was not affected by breast milk composition, suggesting that the effect of maternal stress on infant growth was independent of the size of maternal investment. Our results demonstrate that early maternal trauma may affect the pace of growth in the offspring and, in consequence, lead to a faster life history strategy. This effect might be explained via changes in offspring epigenetics.
Journal of biological and clinical anthropology : Anthropologischer Anzeiger
10.1127/anthranz/2020/1285
32864681
0003-5548
2363-7099
outputup:dataSource:PubMed:2020
WOS:000611985100002
Apanasewicz, A (corresponding author), Polish Acad Sci, Hirszfelds Inst Immunol & Expt Therapy, Dept Anthropol, 12 Weigla St, PL-53114 Wroclaw, Poland., anna.apanasewicz@hirszfeld.pl
transnational E-RARE grant `CCMCURE (DFG)European Commission [SFB958]; E-RARE [ERL 138397]; Canadian; Institutes for Health ResearchCanadian Institutes of Health Research; (CIHR) [PJT 153000]; the E-RARE grant `CCMCURE
Apanasewicz, Anna
2023-11-02T07:22:15+00:00
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CC-BY-NC - Namensnennung, nicht kommerziell 4.0 International
Anna Apanasewicz
Detlef Groth
Christiane Scheffler
Michael Hermanussen
Magdalena Piosek
Patrycja Wychowaniec
Magdalena Babiszewska
Olga Barbarska
Anna Ziomkiewicz
eng
uncontrolled
maternal trauma
eng
uncontrolled
early life trauma
eng
uncontrolled
breastfed infant development
eng
uncontrolled
POLS
Biowissenschaften; Biologie
Institut für Biochemie und Biologie
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Hybrid Open-Access
60076
2023
2023
eng
5
1
article
Universitätsverlag Potsdam
Potsdam
1
2023-07-21
2023-07-21
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Human growth data analysis and statistics – the 5th Gülpe International Student Summer School
The Summer School in Gülpe (Ecological Station of the University of Potsdam) offers an exceptional learning opportunity for students to apply their knowledge and skills to real-world problems. With the guidance of experienced human biologists, statisticians, and programmers, students have the unique chance to analyze their own data and gain valuable insights. This interdisciplinary setting not only bridges different research areas but also leads to highly valuable outputs. The progress of students within just a few days is truly remarkable, especially when they are motivated and receive immediate feedback on their questions, problems, and results. The Summer School covers a wide range of topics, with this year’s focus mainly on two areas: understanding the impact of socioeconomic and physiological factors on human development and mastering statistical techniques for analyzing data such as changepoint analysis and the St. Nicolas House Analysis (SNHA) to visualize interacting variables. The latter technique, born out of the Summer School’s emphasis on gaining comprehensive data insights and understanding major relationships, has proven to be a valuable tool for researchers in the field. The articles in this special issue demonstrate that the Summer School in Gülpe stands as a testament to the power of practical learning and collaboration. Students who attend not only gain hands-on experience but also benefit from the expertise of professionals and the opportunity to engage with peers from diverse disciplines.
Human biology and public health
2748-9957
10.52905/hbph2023.1.70
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false
true
CC-BY - Namensnennung 4.0 International
Detlef Groth
Christiane Scheffler
Michael Hermanussen
eng
uncontrolled
Summer Schools
eng
uncontrolled
Statistical Exercise
eng
uncontrolled
Repetition
Biowissenschaften; Biologie
Medizin und Gesundheit
Institut für Biochemie und Biologie
Extern
Referiert
Universitätsverlag Potsdam
Gold Open-Access
50571
2019
2019
eng
445
451
7
5
76
article
Schweizerbart
Stuttgart
1
2019-04-16
2019-11-08
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Body height in stunted Indonesian children depends directly on parental education and not via a nutrition mediated pathway
Background: Multiple linear correlations between parameters can be shown in correlation matrices. Correlations can be ranked, but can also be visualized in network graphs. Yet, translating a correlation matrix into a network graph is not trivial. In view of a popular child game, we propose to name this method St. Nicolas House Analysis. Material and methods: We present a new method (St. Nicolas House Analysis) that helps translating correlation matrices into network graphs. The performance of this and other network reconstruction methods was tested in randomly created virtual scale-free networks, networks consisting of bands or hubs, using balanced classification rate and the F1-Score for correctly predicting existing and non-existing edges. Thereafter we analyzed anthropometric data and information on parental education, obtained from an anthropometric survey in 908 Indonesian boys and 808 Indonesian girls. Seven parameters were analyzed: child height standard deviation score (hSDS), child BMI standard deviation scores (BMI_SDS), mid-upper-arm circumference (MUAC), mean thickness of subscapular and triceps skinfold (mean SF), and elbow breadth; as well as maternal and paternal education (years of schooling). The parameters were considered as the nodes of the network; the edges represent the correlations between the nodes. Results: Performance measures, balanced classification rate and the F1-score, showed that St. Nicolas’ House Analysis was superior to methods using sophisticated correlation value thresholds and methods based on partial correlations for analyzing bands and hubs. We applied this method also in an Indonesia data set. Ranking correlations showed the direct association between parental education and child growth. Conclusion: St. Nicolas House Analysis confirmed that growth of Indonesian school children directly depends on maternal education, with no evidence that this effect is mediated by the state of nutrition.
Journal of biological and clinical anthropology : Anthropologischer Anzeiger ; Mitteilungsorgan der Gesellschaft für Anthropologie
Evidence from tracing association chains by St. Nicolas House Analysis
10.1127/anthranz/2019/1027
30990515
0003-5548
wos:2019
WOS:000497309500010
Groth, D (reprint author), Univ Potsdam, Inst Biochem & Biol, Bioinformat Grp, D-14476 Potsdam, Germany., dgroth@uni-potsdam.de
2021-04-30T11:39:20+00:00
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Detlef Groth
Christiane Scheffler
Michael Hermanussen
Biowissenschaften; Biologie
Institut für Biochemie und Biologie
Referiert
Import
37416
2014
2014
eng
313
327
15
4
71
article
Schweizerbart
Stuttgart
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The impact of physical connectedness on body height in Swiss conscripts
Background: Human populations differ in height. Recent evidence suggests that social networks play an important role in the regulation of adolescent growth and adult height. We further investigated the effect of physical connectedness on height.
Material and methods: We considered Switzerland as a geographic network with 169 nodes (district capitals) and 335 edges (connecting roads) and studied effects of connectedness on height in Swiss conscript from 1884-1891, 1908-1910, and 2004-2009. We also created exponential-family random graph models to separate possible unspecific effects of geographic vicinity.
Results: In 1884-1891, in 1908-1910, and in 2004-2009, 1st, 2nd and 3rd order neighboring districts significantly correlate in height (p<0.01). The correlations depend on the order of connectedness, they decline with increasing distance. Short stature districts tend to have short, tall stature districts tend to have tall neighbors. Random network analyses suggest direct road effects on height. Whereas in 1884-1891, direct road effects were only visible between 1st order neighbors, direct road effects extended to 2nd and 3rd in 1908-1910, and in 2004-2009, also to 4th order neighbors, and might reflect historic improvements in transportation. The spatial correlations did not significantly change when height was controlled for goiter (1884-1889) and for median per capita income (2006), suggesting direct road effects also in goiter-allowed-for height and income-allowed-for height.
Conclusion: Height in a district depends on height of physically connected neighboring districts. The association decreases with increasing distance in the net. The present data suggest that people can be short because their neighbors are short; or tall because their neighbors are tall (community effect on growth). Psycho-biological effects seem to control growth and development within communities that go far beyond our current understanding of growth regulation.
Journal of biological and clinical anthropology : Anthropologischer Anzeiger ; Mitteilungsorgan der Gesellschaft für Anthropologie
10.1127/0003-5548/2014/0466
25774949
0003-5548
wos:2014
WOS:000346686200001
Hermanussen, M (reprint author), Aschauhof, D-24340 Altenhof, Germany., michael.hermanussen@gmail.com
Michael Hermanussen
Christoph Alt
Kaspar Staub
Christian Aßmann
Detlef Groth
eng
uncontrolled
body height
eng
uncontrolled
connectedness
eng
uncontrolled
community effect
eng
uncontrolled
conscripts
eng
uncontrolled
Switzerland
Institut für Biochemie und Biologie
Referiert
45301
2016
2016
eng
671
678
8
70
article
Nature Publ. Group
London
1
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Monte Carlo simulation of body height in a spatial network
BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVES: Recent evidence suggests clustering of human body height. We want to assess the consequences of connectedness in a spatial network on height clustering in an artificial society. SUBJECTS/METHODS: We used an agent-based computer modelling technique (Monte Carlo simulation) and compared simulated height in a spatial network with characteristics of the observed geographic height distribution of three historic cohorts of Swiss military conscripts (conscripted in 1884-1891; 1908-1910; and 2004-2009). RESULTS: Conscript height shows several characteristic features: (1) height distributions are overdispersed. (2) Conscripts from districts with direct inter-district road connections tend to be similar in height. (3) Clusters of tall and clusters of short stature districts vary over time. Autocorrelations in height between late 19th and early 21st century districts are low. (4) Mean district height depends on the number of connecting roads and on the number of conscripts per district. Using Monte Carlo simulation, we were able to generate these natural characteristics in an artificial society. Already 5% height information from directly connected districts is sufficient to simulate the characteristics of natural height distribution. Very similar observations in regular rectangular networks indicate that the characteristics of Swiss conscript height distributions do not so much result from the particular Swiss geography but rather appear to be general features of spatial networks. CONCLUSIONS: Spatial connectedness can affect height clustering in an artificial society, similar to that seen in natural cohorts of military conscripts, and strengthen the concept of connectedness being involved in the regulation of human height.
European journal of clinical nutrition
10.1038/ejcn.2016.45
27049032
0954-3007
1476-5640
wos2016:2019
WOS:000377498600007
Groth, D (reprint author), Univ Potsdam, Inst Biochem & Biol, Bioinformat Grp, Karl Liebknecht St 24-25, D-14476 Potsdam, Brandenburg, Germany., dgroth@uni-potsdam.de
Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Auxologie (Auxological Society)
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Michael Hermanussen
Christian Assmann
K. Staub
Detlef Groth
Institut für Biochemie und Biologie
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Import
57555
2020
2020
eng
355
357
3
5
77
article
Schweizerbart
Stuttgart
1
2020-08-26
2020-08-26
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Statistical approaches to developmental and growth data of children and adolescents
Journal of biological and clinical anthropology : Anthropologischer Anzeiger ; Mitteilungsorgan der Gesellschaft für Anthropologie
an editorial to student research conducted during the 3rd international student summer school, July 2019, Potsdam and Gülpe, Germany
10.1127/anthranz/2020/1302
32864682
0003-5548
2363-7099
outputup:dataSource:PubMed:2020
WOS:000611985100001
Groth, D (corresponding author), Univ Potsdam, Inst Biochem & Biol, Bioinformat Grp, Potsdam, Germany., michael.hermanussen@gmail.com
Auxological Society; German Gesellschaft fur Anthropologie (GfA)
Hermanussen, Michael
2023-01-16T10:00:06+00:00
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Michael Hermanussen
Detlef Groth
Christiane Scheffler
eng
uncontrolled
human growth
eng
uncontrolled
bone accumulation
eng
uncontrolled
environmental effects
eng
uncontrolled
migration
eng
uncontrolled
socioeconomic status
eng
uncontrolled
parental education
eng
uncontrolled
nutrition
eng
uncontrolled
statistical tools
Publizistische Medien, Journalismus, Verlagswesen
Philosophie und Psychologie
Biowissenschaften; Biologie
Institut für Biochemie und Biologie
Referiert
Import
Hybrid Open-Access
57247
2022
2022
eng
4
3, Summer School Supplement
2021
article
Universitätsverlag Potsdam
Potsdam
1
2022-06-16
2022-06-16
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Human growth data analyses and statistics
Students learn by repetition. Repetition is essential, but repetition needs questioning, and questioning the repertoire belongs to the essential tasks of student education. Guiding students to questioning was and is our prime motive to offer our International Student Summer Schools. The data were critically discussed among the students, in the twilight of Just So Stories, common knowledge, and prompted questioning of contemporary solutions. For these schools, the students bring their own data, carry their preliminary concepts, and in group discussions, they may have to challenge these concepts. Catch-up growth is known to affect long bone growth, but different opinions exist to what extent it also affects body proportions. Skeletal age and dental development are considered appropriate measures of maturation, but it appears that both system develop independently and are regulated by different mechanisms. Body weight distributions are assumed to be skewed, yet, historic data disproved this assumption. Many discussions focused on current ideas of global growth standards as a common yardstick for all populations world-wide, with new statistical tools being developed including network reconstruction and evaluation of the reconstructs to determine the confidence of graph prediction methods.
Human biology and public health
The 4th Gülpe International Student Summer School
2748-9957
10.52905/hbph2021.3.29
@articleHBPH.3_2021, author = Hermanussen and Detlef Groth and Christiane Scheffler, title = Human growth data analyses and statistics: The 4th Gülpe International Student Summer School, pages = 1 – 4, keywords = Just so stories, Summer Schools, questioning solutions, repetition, doi = 10.52905/hbph2022.2.48, year = 2022, publisher = Universitätsverlag Potsdam, address = Potsdam, number = 3, volume = 2021, issn = 2748-9957, journal = Human biology and public health = Summer School Supplement, licences = 22, collections = 17104, 17131, 17162, 17157, 17670, 614, 652
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2022-12-23T11:48:44+00:00
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CC-BY - Namensnennung 4.0 International
Michael Hermanussen
Detlef Groth
Christiane Scheffler
eng
uncontrolled
Just so stories
eng
uncontrolled
Summer Schools
eng
uncontrolled
questioning solutions
eng
uncontrolled
repetition
Biowissenschaften; Biologie
Medizin und Gesundheit
Institut für Biochemie und Biologie
Extern
Referiert
Universitätsverlag Potsdam
Gold Open-Access
45293
2016
2016
eng
756
767
12
13
other
Medical Media
Netanya
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Stunted Growth. Proceedings of the 23rd Aschauer Soiree, Held at Aschauhof, Germany, November 7th 2015
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.
Pediatric Endocrinology Reviews
27464419
1565-4753
wos2016:2019
WOS:000378464100008
Hermanussen, M (reprint author), Aschauhof 3, D-24340 Altenhof, Germany., michael.hermanussen@gmail.com
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2020-03-22T17:20:01+00:00
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Michael Hermanussen
Josefin Ipsen
Rebekka Mumm
Christian Assmann
Julia Quitmann
Aleksandra Gomula
Andreas Lehmann
Isabelle Jasch
Vincent Tassenaar
Barry Bogin
Takashi Satake
Christiane Scheffler
Javier Nunez
Elena Godina
Ruediger Hardeland
Jesper L. Boldsen
Mortada El-Shabrawi
Mona Elhusseini
Carmen Gabriela Barbu
Ralucca Pop
Jani Soederhaell
Andrea Merker
James Swanson
Detlef Groth
eng
uncontrolled
Adolescent growth
eng
uncontrolled
Peer group
eng
uncontrolled
Growth hormone
eng
uncontrolled
Community effect
eng
uncontrolled
Body height
Institut für Biochemie und Biologie
Referiert
Import
50048
2019
2019
eng
383
400
18
3
16
article
Medical Media
Netanya
1
2019-03-16
2019-03-16
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Meeting Reports
Thirty-one scientists met at Aschauhof, Germany to discuss the role of beliefs and self-perception on body size. In view of apparent growth stimulatory effects of dominance within the social group that is observed in social mammals, they discussed various aspects of competitive growth strategies and growth adjustments. Presentations included new data from Indonesia, a cohort-based prospective study from Merida, Yucatan, and evidence from recent meta-analyses and patterns of growth in the socially deprived. The effects of stress experienced during pregnancy and adverse childhood events were discussed, as well as obesity in school children, with emphasis on problems when using z-scores in extremely obese children. Aspects were presented on body image in African-American women, and body perception and the disappointments of menopause in view of feelings of attractiveness in different populations. Secular trends in height were presented, including short views on so called 'racial types' vs bio-plasticity, and historic data on early-life nutritional status and later-life socioeconomic outcomes during the Dutch potato famine. New tools for describing body proportions in patients with variable degrees of phocomelia were presented along with electronic growth charts. Bio-statisticians discussed the influence of randomness, community and network structures, and presented novel tools and methods for analyzing social network data.
Pediatric Endocrinology Reviews
The Role of Beliefs and Perception on Body Size. Proceedings of the 26th Aschauer Soiree, Held at Aschauhof, Altenhof, Germany, May 26th, 2018
10.17458/per.vol16.2019.hps.mr.26achauersoiree
30888128
1565-4753
wos:2019
WOS:000463311800008
Hermanussen, M (reprint author), Aschauhof 3, D-24340 Eckernforde Altenhof, Germany., michael.hermanussen@gmail.conn
[ProgresQ19]; [UNCE/HUM032]
2021-03-23T10:41:36+00:00
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true
Michael Hermanussen
Aman B. Pulungan
Christiane Scheffler
Rebekka Mumm
Alan D. Rogol
Raluca Pop
James M. Swanson
Edmund Sonuga-Barke
Anna Reimann
Anna Siniarska-Wolanska
Martin Musalek
Barry Bogin
Jesper L. Boldsen
(Vincent) Tassenaar
Detlef Groth
Yuk-Chien Liu
Christof Meigen
Bjorn Quanjer
Kristina Thompson
Baak Koca Ozer
Ewa Bryl
Paula Mamrot
Tomasz Hanc
Slawomir Koziel
Jani Soderhall
Aleksandra Gomula
Sudip Datta Banik
Mathieu Roelants
Gudrun Veldre
Leslie Sue Lieberman
Lynnette Leidy Sievert
eng
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Body size
eng
uncontrolled
Social group
eng
uncontrolled
Social network
eng
uncontrolled
Body perception
eng
uncontrolled
Competitive growth strategies
eng
uncontrolled
Growth adjustment
Biowissenschaften; Biologie
Institut für Biochemie und Biologie
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Import
43481
2015
2020
eng
7
869
postprint
1
2020-04-08
2020-04-08
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Height and skeletal morphology in relation to modern life style
Height and skeletal morphology strongly relate to life style. Parallel to the decrease in physical activity and locomotion, modern people are slimmer in skeletal proportions. In German children and adolescents, elbow breadth and particularly relative pelvic breadth (50th centile of bicristal distance divided by body height) have significantly decreased in recent years. Even more evident than the changes in pelvic morphology are the rapid changes in body height in most modern countries since the end-19th and particularly since the mid-20th century. Modern Japanese mature earlier; the age at take-off (ATO, the age at which the adolescent growth spurt starts) decreases, and they are taller at all ages. Preece-Baines modelling of six national samples of Japanese children and adolescents, surveyed between 1955 and 2000, shows that this gain in height is largely an adolescent trend, whereas height at take-off (HTO) increased by less than 3 cm since 1955; adolescent growth (height gain between ATO and adult age) increased by 6 cm. The effect of globalization on the modern post-war Japanese society ("community effect in height") on adolescent growth is discussed.
Postprints der Universität Potsdam : Mathematisch Naturwissenschaftliche Reihe
10.25932/publishup-43481
urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-434814
1866-8372
Journal of Physiological Anthropology 34 (2015) 41 DOI:10.1186/s40101-015-0080-4
41
<a href="http://publishup.uni-potsdam.de/38380">Bibliographieeintrag der Originalveröffentlichung/Quelle</a
CC-BY - Namensnennung 4.0 International
Michael Hermanussen
Christiane Scheffler
Detlef Groth
Christian Aßmann
Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Reihe
869
eng
uncontrolled
pelvic breadth
eng
uncontrolled
elbow breadth
eng
uncontrolled
growth
eng
uncontrolled
adult height
eng
uncontrolled
community effect in height
Medizin und Gesundheit
open_access
Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät
Referiert
Open Access
Universität Potsdam
https://publishup.uni-potsdam.de/files/43481/pmnr869.pdf
38380
2015
2015
eng
5
34
review
BioMed Central
London
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Height and skeletal morphology in relation to modern life style
Height and skeletal morphology strongly relate to life style. Parallel to the decrease in physical activity and locomotion, modern people are slimmer in skeletal proportions. In German children and adolescents, elbow breadth and particularly relative pelvic breadth (50th centile of bicristal distance divided by body height) have significantly decreased in recent years. Even more evident than the changes in pelvic morphology are the rapid changes in body height in most modern countries since the end-19th and particularly since the mid-20th century. Modern Japanese mature earlier; the age at take-off (ATO, the age at which the adolescent growth spurt starts) decreases, and they are taller at all ages. Preece-Baines modelling of six national samples of Japanese children and adolescents, surveyed between 1955 and 2000, shows that this gain in height is largely an adolescent trend, whereas height at take-off (HTO) increased by less than 3 cm since 1955; adolescent growth (height gain between ATO and adult age) increased by 6 cm. The effect of globalization on the modern post-war Japanese society ("community effect in height") on adolescent growth is discussed.
Journal of physiological anthropology
10.1186/s40101-015-0080-4
26642759
1880-6805
wos:2015
41
WOS:000366247200001
Hermanussen, M (reprint author), Aschauhof 3, D-24340 Altenhof, Germany., michael.hermanussen@gmail.com
Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Auxologie (Auxological Society)
<a href="https://doi.org/10.25932/publishup-43481">Zweitveröffentlichung in der Schriftenreihe Postprints der Universität Potsdam : Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Reihe ; 869</a>
Michael Hermanussen
Christiane Scheffler
Detlef Groth
Christian Aßmann
eng
uncontrolled
Pelvic breadth
eng
uncontrolled
Elbow breadth
eng
uncontrolled
Growth
eng
uncontrolled
Adult height
eng
uncontrolled
Community effect in height
Institut für Biochemie und Biologie
Referiert
Open Access
50543
2019
2019
eng
363
364
2
5
76
other
Schweizerbart
Stuttgart
1
2019-08-15
2019-08-15
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Student work on trends in infant and child growth
Journal of biological and clinical anthropology : Anthropologischer Anzeiger : Mitteilungsorgan der Gesellschaft für Anthropologie
an editorial
10.1127/anthranz/2019/1052
31478052
0003-5548
wos:2019
WOS:000497309500001
Hermanussen, M (reprint author), Aschauhof 3, D-24340 Eckernforde Altenhof, Germany., michael.hermanussen@gmail.com
Auxological Society; German Gesellschaft fur Anthropologie (GfA)
2021-04-28T09:21:38+00:00
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CC-BY-NC - Namensnennung, nicht kommerziell 4.0 International
Michael Hermanussen
Christiane Scheffler
Detlef Groth
Barry Bogin
eng
uncontrolled
nutrition
eng
uncontrolled
impact on growth
eng
uncontrolled
geographic neighborhood
eng
uncontrolled
mortality bias
eng
uncontrolled
limb disproportions
eng
uncontrolled
physical activity
eng
uncontrolled
socioeconomic status
eng
uncontrolled
parental age
eng
uncontrolled
statistical tools
Biowissenschaften; Biologie
Institut für Biochemie und Biologie
Referiert
Import
54439
2018
2018
eng
355
358
4
5
74
other
Schweizerbart
Stuttgart
1
2018-02-20
2018-06-01
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Perceiving stunting - Student research and the "Lieschen Muller effect" in nutrition science
Journal of biological and clinical anthropology : Anthropologischer Anzeiger ; Mitteilungsorgan der Gesellschaft für Anthropologie
10.1127/anthranz/2018/0858
29461565
0003-5548
wos:2018
WOS:000439104800001
Hermanussen, M (reprint author), Aschauhof 3, D-24340 Eckernforde Altenhof, Germany., michael.hermanussen@gmail.com
German Gesellschaft fur Anthropologic (GfA); Auxological Society; Lilly Deutschland GmbH
2022-03-23T12:13:23+00:00
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Michael Hermanussen
Christiane Scheffler
Detlef Groth
Barry Bogin
eng
uncontrolled
stunting
eng
uncontrolled
undernutrition
eng
uncontrolled
strategic growth adjustments
eng
uncontrolled
competitive growth
eng
uncontrolled
community effect on height
Biowissenschaften; Biologie
Institut für Biochemie und Biologie
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Green Open-Access
51541
2021
eng
1
13
13
1
2021
periodicalpart
Universitätsverlag Potsdam
Potsdam
1
2021-06-22
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Growth, Nutrition and Economy
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.
Human Biology and Public Health
Proceedings of the 27th Aschauer Soiree, held at Krobielowice, Poland, November 16th 2019
10.52905/hbph.v1.1
2748-9957
online registration
publish
WX 6904, WU 4000
false
false
CC-BY - Namensnennung 4.0 International
Michael Hermanussen
Christiane Scheffler
Lidia Martin
Detlef Groth
James G. Waxmonsky
James Swanson
Natalia Nowak-Szczepanska
Aleksandra Gomula
Anna Apanasewicz
Jan M. Konarski
Robert M. Malina
Sylwia Bartkowiak
Lidia Lebedeva
Andrej Suchomlinov
Vsevolod Konstantinov
Werner Blum
Yehuda Limony
Raja Chakraborty
Sylvia Kirchengast
Janina Tutkuviene
Egle Marija Jakimaviciene
Ramune Cepuliene
Daniel Franken
Bárbara Navazo
Annang G. Moelyo
Takashi Satake
Slawomir Koziel
eng
uncontrolled
nutrition
eng
uncontrolled
stunting
eng
uncontrolled
socioeconomy
eng
uncontrolled
education
eng
uncontrolled
secular changes
eng
uncontrolled
pubertal timing
Biowissenschaften; Biologie
open_access
Institut für Biochemie und Biologie
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Universitätsverlag Potsdam
Gold Open-Access
Universität Potsdam
Universitätsverlag Potsdam
60075
2023
2023
eng
14
1
article
Universitätsverlag Potsdam
Potsdam
1
2023-07-21
2023-07-21
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Environment, social behavior, and growth
Twenty-four scientists met for the annual Auxological conference held at Krobielowice castle, Poland, to discuss the diverse influences of the environment and of social behavior on growth following last year’s focus on growth and public health concerns (Hermanussen et al., 2022b). Growth and final body size exhibit marked plastic responses to ecological conditions. Among the shortest are the pygmoid people of Rampasasa, Flores, Indonesia, who still live under most secluded insular conditions. Genetics and nutrition are usually considered responsible for the poor growth in many parts of this world, but evidence is accumulating on the prominent impact of social embedding on child growth. Secular trends not only in the growth of height, but also in body proportions, accompany the secular changes in the social, economic and political conditions, with major influences on the emotional and educational circumstances under which the children grow up (Bogin, 2021). Aspects of developmental tempo and aspects of sports were discussed, and the impact of migration by the example of women from Bangladesh who grew up in the UK. Child growth was considered in particular from the point of view of strategic adjustments of individual size within the network of its social group. Theoretical considerations on network characteristics were presented and related to the evolutionary conservation of growth regulating hypothalamic neuropeptides that have been shown to link behavior and physical growth in the vertebrate species. New statistical approaches were presented for the evaluation of short term growth measurements that permit monitoring child growth at intervals of a few days and weeks.
Human biology and public health
Proceedings of the 30th Aschauer Soiree, held at Krobielowice, Poland, June 18th 2022
2748-9957
10.52905/hbph2023.1.59
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CC-BY - Namensnennung 4.0 International
Michael Hermanussen
Christiane Scheffler
Aman B. Pulungan
Arup Ratan Bandyopadhyay
Jyoti Ratan Ghosh
Ayşegül Özdemir
Başak Koca Özer
Martin Musalek
Lidia Lebedeva
Elena Godina
Barry Bogin
Janina Tutkuviene
Milda Budrytė
Simona Gervickaite
Yehuda Limony
Sylvia Kirchengast
Peter Buston
Detlef Groth
Antonia Rösler
Nikolaos Gasparatos
Sergei Erofeev
Masiar Novine
Bárbara Navazo
Silvia Dahinten
Aleksandra Gomuła
Natalia Nowak-Szczepańska
Sławomir Kozieł
eng
uncontrolled
St. Nicolas House Analysis
eng
uncontrolled
child growth
eng
uncontrolled
body proportions
eng
uncontrolled
social network
eng
uncontrolled
public health
eng
uncontrolled
migration
Biowissenschaften; Biologie
Medizin und Gesundheit
Institut für Biochemie und Biologie
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Universitätsverlag Potsdam
Gold Open-Access
55226
2017
2017
eng
326
334
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3
14
other
Medical Media
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Adolescence - a Transition to Adulthood Proceedings of the 24th Aschauer Soiree, held at Jurata, Poland, November 5th 2016
Eighteen scientists met at Jurata, Poland, to discuss various aspects of the transition from adolescence to adulthood. This transition is a delicate period facing complex interactions between the adolescents and the social group they belong to. Social identity, group identification and identity signalling, but also stress affecting basal salivary cortisol rhythms, hypertension, inappropriate nutrition causing latent and manifest obesity, moreover, in developing and under-developed countries, parasitosis causing anaemia thereby impairing growth and development, are issues to be dealt with during this period of the human development. In addition, some new aspects of the association between weight, height and head circumference in the newborns were discussed, as well as intrauterine head growth and head circumference as health risk indicators.
Pediatric Endocrinology Reviews
1565-4753
wos:2017
WOS:000399257500010
Michael, H (reprint author), Aschauhof 3, D-24340 Altenhof, Germany., michael.hermanussen@gmail.com
2022-06-17T15:37:18+00:00
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Slawomir Koziel
Michael Hermanussen
Alexandra Gomula
James Swanson
Maria Kaczmarek
Mortada El-Shabrawi
Mona Elhusseini
Takashi Satake
Irena Martinovic Klaric
Christiane Scheffler
Ruta Morkuniene
Elena Godina
Missoni Sasa
Janina Tutkuviene
Anna Siniarska
Joanna Nieczuja-Dwojacka
Javier Nunez
Detlef Groth
Davide Barbieri
eng
uncontrolled
Strategic growth adjustment
eng
uncontrolled
BMI
eng
uncontrolled
Growth faltering
eng
uncontrolled
Secular trend
eng
uncontrolled
Obesity
eng
uncontrolled
Growth modelling
Biowissenschaften; Biologie
Institut für Biochemie und Biologie
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52827
2018
2018
eng
319
329
11
4
15
article
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Netanya
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Meeting Report: Growth and social environment
Twenty-two scientists met at Krobielowice, Poland, to discuss the impact of the social environment, spatial proximity, migration, poverty, but also psychological factors such as body perception and satisfaction, and social stressors such as elite sports, and teenage pregnancies, on child and adolescent growth. The data analysis included linear mixed effects models with different random effects, Monte Carlo analyses, and network simulations. The work stressed the importance of the peer group, but also included historic material, some considerations about body proportions, and growth in chronic liver, and congenital heart disease.
Pediatric Endocrinology Reviews
Proceedings of the 25th Aschauer Soiree, held at Krobielowice, Poland, November 18th 2017
10.17458/per.vol15.2018.ksh.mr.GrowthSocialEnvironment
29806752
1565-4753
wos:2018
WOS:000437993600006
Hermanussen, M (reprint author), Aschauhof 3, D-24340 Altenhof, Germany., michael.hermanussen@gmail.com
2021-11-25T08:20:04+00:00
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Slawomir Koziel
Christiane Scheffler
Janina Tutkuviene
Egle Marija Jakimaviciene
Rebekka Mumm
Davide Barbieri
Elena Godina
Mortada El-Shabrawi
Mona Elhusseini
Martin Musalek
Paulina Pruszkowska-Przybylska
Hanaa H. El Dash
Hebatalla Hassan Safar
Andreas Lehmann
James Swanson
Barry Bogin
Yuk-Chien Liu
Detlef Groth
Sylvia Kirchengast
Anna Siniarska
Joanna Nieczuja-Dwojacka
Miroslav Kralik
Takashi Satake
Tomasz Harc
Mathieu Roelants
Michael Hermanussen
eng
uncontrolled
Body height
eng
uncontrolled
Social environment
eng
uncontrolled
Strategic growth adjustment
eng
uncontrolled
Competitive growth
eng
uncontrolled
Community effects on growth
Biowissenschaften; Biologie
Institut für Biochemie und Biologie
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Import
50548
2019
2019
eng
371
377
7
5
76
article
Schweizerbart
Stuttgart
1
2019-04-17
2019-04-17
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The network effects on conscripts' height in the central provinces of Russian empire in the middle of XIX century
Background: We investigated average body height in the central provinces of the Russian empire in the middle of XIX century in view of the concept of "community effects on height". We analyzed body height correlations between neighboring districts at this time. We added information about secular changes in body height during the 19th century of this territory. Material and methods: The study used height data of conscripts, which were born in the years 1853-1863, and age 21 at the time of measurement. The territory of seven provinces was considered as a network with 105 nodes, each node representing one district with information on average male body height. In order to define neighboring districts three different approaches were used: based on the "common borders" method, based on Euclidean distances (from 60 to 120 km), based on real road connections. Results: Small but significant correlation coefficients were observed between 1st order districts in the network based on Euclidean distance of 100 km (r = 0.256, p-value = 0.006) and based on "the common borders" approach (r = 0.25, p-value = 0.02). Wherein no significant correlations were observed in the network based on road connections and between second order neighbors regardless of the method. Conclusion: Height correlation coefficients between 1st order neighboring districts observed in the Russian districts were very similar to values observed in the Polish study (r = 0.24). The considered Russian territory and the territory of Poland have a lot in common. They consist of both plains without mountains. In contradistinction to Poland the transport infrastructure in Russia was weakly developed in the middle of XIX century. In addition, the mobility of people was limited by serfdom. In this context the absent of significant correlation of second order neighbors can be explained by low population density and lack of migration and communication between the districts.
Journal of biological and clinical anthropology : Anthropologischer Anzeiger ; Mitteilungsorgan der Gesellschaft für Anthropologie
at the beginning of XX century
10.1127/anthranz/2019/0984
30994699
0003-5548
wos:2019
WOS:000497309500003
Lebedeva, L (reprint author), Publ Opin Fdn, Moscow, Russia., lidiapakulova@gmail.com
Auxological Society (Gesellschaft fur Auxologie); Society of Anthropology (Gesellschaft fur Anthropologie)
2021-04-29T08:13:32+00:00
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Lidia Lebedeva
Detlef Groth
Michael Hermanussen
Christiane Scheffler
Elena Godina
eng
uncontrolled
body height
eng
uncontrolled
correlation
eng
uncontrolled
conscripts
eng
uncontrolled
community effect on height
eng
uncontrolled
Russian empire
Biowissenschaften; Biologie
Institut für Biochemie und Biologie
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Import
59360
2020
2020
eng
399
403
5
5
77
article
Schweizerbart
Stuttgart
1
2020-05-20
2020-05-20
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No correlation between short term weight gain and lower leg length gain in healthy German children
Background:
Length-for-age is considered the indicator of choice in monitoring the long-term impact of chronic nutritional deficiency. Aim: We hypothesized that short term increments of body weight cross-correlate with increments of the lower leg length.
Sample and methods:
We re-analyzed the association between weekly measurements of weight and of lower leg length in 34 healthy German children, aged 2.9-15.9 years. The data are a subset of measurements originally published in 1988 (Hermanussen et al. 1988a). As the growth measurements were often not equally spaced in time due to interposed holidays and illness, the incremental rates for weight and lower leg length were smoothed using spline functions. Autocorrelation and cross-correlation functions were calculated for weight increments and lower leg length increments.
Results:
Height and weight increments are pulsatile. Autocorrelations indicated that mini growth spurts occur at irregular intervals. Lack of cross-correlations between weight and lower leg length indicated that mini spurts in weight gain do not coincide with mini spurts in length gain even when considering lag times of up to 10 weeks. Short term changes of weight gain and lower leg length gain in healthy children show no temporal association.
Journal of biological and clinical anthropology : Anthropologischer Anzeiger ; Mitteilungsorgan der Gesellschaft für Anthropologie
10.1127/anthranz/2020/1237
32432642
0003-5548
2363-7099
outputup:dataSource:PubMed:2020
WOS:000611985100005
Scheffler, Christiane (corresponding author), Univ Potsdam, Human Biol, Neuen Palais 10, D-14469 Potsdam, Germany., christiane.scheffler@uni-potsdam.de
Auxological Society (Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Auxologie); Society of; Anthropology (Gesellschaft fur Anthropologie); University of Potsdam,; Germany
Scheffler, Christiane
2023-05-26T11:56:35+00:00
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CC-BY-NC - Namensnennung, nicht kommerziell 4.0 International
Arusa Maqsood
Daniel J. Naumenko
Michael Hermanussen
Christiane Scheffler
Detlef Groth
eng
uncontrolled
knemometry
eng
uncontrolled
short term growth
eng
uncontrolled
mini growth spurts
eng
uncontrolled
lower leg length
Medizin und Gesundheit
Institut für Biochemie und Biologie
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Import
Hybrid Open-Access
54354
2021
2021
eng
2
article
Universitätsverlag Potsdam
Potsdam
1
2021-12-22
2021-12-22
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Growth during times of fear and emotional stress
Twenty-one scientists met for this year’s virtual conference on Auxology held at the University Potsdam, Germany, to discuss child and adolescent growth during times of fear and emotional stress. Growth within the broad range of normal for age and sex is considered a sign of good general health whereas fear and emotional stress can lead to growth faltering. Stunting is a sign of social disadvantage and poor parental education. Adverse childhood experiences affect child development, particularly in families with low parental education and low socioeconomic status. Negative effects were also shown in Indian children exposed prenatally and in early postnatal life to the cyclone Aila in 2009. Distrust, fears and fake news regarding the current Corona pandemic received particular attention though the effects generally appeared weak. Mean birth weight was higher; rates of low, very and extremely low birth weight were lower. Other topics discussed by the participants, were the influences of economic crises on birth weight, the measurement of self-confidence and its impact on growth, the associations between obesity, peer relationship, and behavior among Turkish adolescents, height trends in Indonesia, physiological neonatal weight loss, methods for assessing biological maturation in sportsmen, and a new method for skeletal age determination. The participants also discussed the association between acute myocardial infarction and somatotype in Estonia, rural-urban growth differences in Mongolian children, socio-environmental conditions and sexual dimorphism, biological mortality bias, and new statistical techniques for describing inhomogeneity in the association of bivariate variables, and for detecting and visualizing extensive interactions among variables.
Human biology and public health
Proceedings of the 28th Aschauer Soiree, held at Potsdam, Germany, and online, November 14th 2020
10.52905/hbph.v2.15
2748-9957
3074147-6
Hermanussen, Michael
WX 6904, WU 4000
CC-BY - Namensnennung 4.0 International
Christiane Scheffler
Alan D. Rogol
Mirela Iancu
Tomasz Hanc
Annang Giri Moelyo
Andrej Suchomlinov
Lidia Lebedeva
Yehuda Limony
Martin Musalek
Gudrun Veldre
Elena Z. Godina
Sylvia Kirchengast
Rebekka Mumm
Detlef Groth
Janina Tutkuviene
Sonja Böker
Basak Koca Ozer
Barbara Navazo
Laure Spake
Slawomir Koziel
Michael Hermanussen
eng
uncontrolled
stunting
eng
uncontrolled
birth weight
eng
uncontrolled
fear
eng
uncontrolled
emotional stress
eng
uncontrolled
economy
eng
uncontrolled
SEPE
Medizin und Gesundheit
Institut für Biochemie und Biologie
Extern
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Universitätsverlag Potsdam
Gold Open-Access
Universität Potsdam
Universitätsverlag Potsdam