TY  - GEN
A1  - Koziel, Slawomir
A1  - Hermanussen, Michael
A1  - Gomula, Alexandra
A1  - Swanson, James
A1  - Kaczmarek, Maria
A1  - El-Shabrawi, Mortada
A1  - Elhusseini, Mona
A1  - Satake, Takashi
A1  - Martinovic Klaric, Irena
A1  - Scheffler, Christiane
A1  - Morkuniene, Ruta
A1  - Godina, Elena
A1  - Sasa, Missoni
A1  - Tutkuviene, Janina
A1  - Siniarska, Anna
A1  - Nieczuja-Dwojacka, Joanna
A1  - Nunez, Javier
A1  - Groth, Detlef
A1  - Barbieri, Davide
T1  - Adolescence - a Transition to Adulthood Proceedings of the 24th Aschauer Soiree, held at Jurata, Poland, November 5th 2016
T2  - Pediatric Endocrinology Reviews
N2  - 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.
KW  - Strategic growth adjustment
KW  - BMI
KW  - Growth faltering
KW  - Secular trend
KW  - Obesity
KW  - Growth modelling
Y1  - 2017
SN  - 1565-4753
VL  - 14
IS  - 3
SP  - 326
EP  - 334
PB  - Medical Media
CY  - Netanya
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Koziel, Slawomir
A1  - Scheffler, Christiane
A1  - Tutkuviene, Janina
A1  - Jakimaviciene, Egle Marija
A1  - Mumm, Rebekka
A1  - Barbieri, Davide
A1  - Godina, Elena
A1  - El-Shabrawi, Mortada
A1  - Elhusseini, Mona
A1  - Musalek, Martin
A1  - Pruszkowska-Przybylska, Paulina
A1  - El Dash, Hanaa H.
A1  - Safar, Hebatalla Hassan
A1  - Lehmann, Andreas
A1  - Swanson, James
A1  - Bogin, Barry
A1  - Liu, Yuk-Chien
A1  - Groth, Detlef
A1  - Kirchengast, Sylvia
A1  - Siniarska, Anna
A1  - Nieczuja-Dwojacka, Joanna
A1  - Kralik, Miroslav
A1  - Satake, Takashi
A1  - Harc, Tomasz
A1  - Roelants, Mathieu
A1  - Hermanussen, Michael
T1  - Meeting Report: Growth and social environment
BT  - Proceedings of the 25th Aschauer Soiree, held at Krobielowice, Poland, November 18th 2017
JF  - Pediatric Endocrinology Reviews
N2  - 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.
KW  - Body height
KW  - Social environment
KW  - Strategic growth adjustment
KW  - Competitive growth
KW  - Community effects on growth
Y1  - 2018
U6  - https://doi.org/10.17458/per.vol15.2018.ksh.mr.GrowthSocialEnvironment
SN  - 1565-4753
VL  - 15
IS  - 4
SP  - 319
EP  - 329
PB  - Medical Media
CY  - Netanya
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Hermanussen, Michael
A1  - Mumm, Rebekka
A1  - Rintisch, Aileen
A1  - Tutkuviene, Janina
A1  - Suchomlinov, Andrej
A1  - Joubert, Kálmán
A1  - Ferrandez Longas, Angel
A1  - Scheffler, Christiane
T1  - Height SDS changes (Delta hSDS) in healthy children from birth to 18 years, with correction factors for measurement intervals of less than one year
JF  - Pediatric Endocrinology Reviews
N2  - Background: Growth is volatile and non-linear. Assessing the instantaneous speed of growth (momentary height velocity) depends on the precision and the number of measurements and the duration of the observation period. Measurements at short intervals reflect both the non-linearity of growth and the technical error of measurements (TEM). Material: We reanalyzed longitudinal measurements of body length at age 0, 3 months, 6 months, 9 months, 12 months, 18 months, and 24 months, from 1879 healthy infants (956 girls, 923 boys) from France (180 girls, 173 boys), Vilnius, Lithuania (507 girls, 507 boys), Lublin, Poland (67 girls, 56 boys), Zurich, Switzerland (94 girls, 102 boys) and Spain (108 girls, 95 boys); and longitudinal measurements of annual body height from age 2 to 18 years from 1528 healthy children and adolescents (774 girls, 754 boys) from France (41 girls, 47 boys), Vilnius, Lithuania (23 girls, 27 boys), Lublin, Poland (70 girls, 58 boys), Zurich, Switzerland (111 girls, 120 boys), Spain (94 girls, 74 boys), the Czech Republic (65 girls, 69 boys), Hungary (316 girls, 320 boys), and Berkeley, USA (54 girls, 39 boys). Results: We calculated age- and sex-specific mean values for height and SD for height separately for each country. In addition, we defined the instantaneous speed of growth by the dhSDS(t) difference of two measures of hSDS (v(hSDS(t)) = Delta hSDS(t)/t), or in the case of multiple measurements, by the slope of the linear regression (BhSDS((t))). Based on the longitudinal measurements of body length, we present reference values for annual growth velocity given in the form of SD of annual hSDS changes (Delta hSDS), from birth to maturity. Correction factors are added for validating measurements obtained at intervals of less than one year. The correction factors depend on number of measurements, and duration of the observation period.
KW  - Height SOS changes
KW  - Height
KW  - Reference
KW  - Short term growth
Y1  - 2019
U6  - https://doi.org/10.17458/per.vol16.2019.hmr.heightsdschanges
SN  - 1565-4753
VL  - 16
IS  - 4
SP  - 457
EP  - 467
PB  - Medical Media
CY  - Netanya
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Hermanussen, Michael
A1  - Scheffler, Christiane
A1  - Martin, Lidia
A1  - Groth, Detlef
A1  - Waxmonsky, James G.
A1  - Swanson, James
A1  - Nowak-Szczepanska, Natalia
A1  - Gomula, Aleksandra
A1  - Apanasewicz, Anna
A1  - Konarski, Jan M.
A1  - Malina, Robert M.
A1  - Bartkowiak, Sylwia
A1  - Lebedeva, Lidia
A1  - Suchomlinov, Andrej
A1  - Konstantinov, Vsevolod
A1  - Blum, Werner
A1  - Limony, Yehuda
A1  - Chakraborty, Raja
A1  - Kirchengast, Sylvia
A1  - Tutkuviene, Janina
A1  - Jakimaviciene, Egle Marija
A1  - Cepuliene, Ramune
A1  - Franken, Daniel
A1  - Navazo, Bárbara
A1  - Moelyo, Annang G.
A1  - Satake, Takashi
A1  - Koziel, Slawomir
ED  - Scheffler, Christiane
ED  - Koziel, Slawomir
ED  - Hermanussen, Michael
ED  - Bogin, Barry
T1  - Growth, Nutrition and Economy
BT  - Proceedings of the 27th Aschauer Soiree, held at Krobielowice, Poland, November 16th 2019
T2  - Human Biology and Public Health
N2  - 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.
KW  - nutrition
KW  - stunting
KW  - socioeconomy
KW  - education
KW  - secular changes
KW  - pubertal timing
Y1  - 2021
U6  - https://doi.org/10.52905/hbph.v1.1
SN  - 2748-9957
VL  - 2021
IS  - 1
SP  - 1
EP  - 13
PB  - Universitätsverlag Potsdam
CY  - Potsdam
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Scheffler, Christiane
A1  - Rogol, Alan D.
A1  - Iancu, Mirela
A1  - Hanc, Tomasz
A1  - Moelyo, Annang Giri
A1  - Suchomlinov, Andrej
A1  - Lebedeva, Lidia
A1  - Limony, Yehuda
A1  - Musalek, Martin
A1  - Veldre, Gudrun
A1  - Godina, Elena Z.
A1  - Kirchengast, Sylvia
A1  - Mumm, Rebekka
A1  - Groth, Detlef
A1  - Tutkuviene, Janina
A1  - Böker, Sonja
A1  - Ozer, Basak Koca
A1  - Navazo, Barbara
A1  - Spake, Laure
A1  - Koziel, Slawomir
A1  - Hermanussen, Michael
T1  - Growth during times of fear and emotional stress
BT  - Proceedings of the 28th Aschauer Soiree, held at Potsdam, Germany, and online, November 14th 2020
JF  - Human biology and public health
N2  - 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.
KW  - stunting
KW  - birth weight
KW  - fear
KW  - emotional stress
KW  - economy
KW  - SEPE
Y1  - 2021
U6  - https://doi.org/10.52905/hbph.v2.15
SN  - 2748-9957
IS  - 2
PB  - Universitätsverlag Potsdam
CY  - Potsdam
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Hermanussen, Michael
A1  - Scheffler, Christiane
A1  - Pulungan, Aman B.
A1  - Bandyopadhyay, Arup Ratan
A1  - Ghosh, Jyoti Ratan
A1  - Özdemir, Ayşegül
A1  - Koca Özer, Başak
A1  - Musalek, Martin
A1  - Lebedeva, Lidia
A1  - Godina, Elena
A1  - Bogin, Barry
A1  - Tutkuviene, Janina
A1  - Budrytė, Milda
A1  - Gervickaite, Simona
A1  - Limony, Yehuda
A1  - Kirchengast, Sylvia
A1  - Buston, Peter
A1  - Groth, Detlef
A1  - Rösler, Antonia
A1  - Gasparatos, Nikolaos
A1  - Erofeev, Sergei
A1  - Novine, Masiar
A1  - Navazo, Bárbara
A1  - Dahinten, Silvia
A1  - Gomuła, Aleksandra
A1  - Nowak-Szczepańska, Natalia
A1  - Kozieł, Sławomir
T1  - Environment, social behavior, and growth
BT  - Proceedings of the 30th Aschauer Soiree, held at Krobielowice, Poland, June 18th 2022
JF  - Human biology and public health
N2  - 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.
KW  - St. Nicolas House Analysis
KW  - child growth
KW  - body proportions
KW  - social network
KW  - public health
KW  - migration
Y1  - 2023
U6  - https://doi.org/10.52905/hbph2023.1.59
SN  - 2748-9957
VL  - 1
PB  - Universitätsverlag Potsdam
CY  - Potsdam
ER  -