TY  - JOUR
A1  - Hermanussen, Michael
A1  - Lieberman, L. S.
A1  - Schönfeld Janewa, U.
A1  - Scheffler, Christiane
A1  - Ghosh, A.
A1  - Bogin, Barry
A1  - Godina, E.
A1  - Kaczmarek, M.
A1  - El-Shabrawi, M.
A1  - Salama, E. E.
A1  - Rühli, F. J.
A1  - Staub, K.
A1  - Woitek, U.
A1  - Blaha, Pawel
A1  - vanBuurren, S.
A1  - Lehmann, A.
A1  - Satake, T.
A1  - Thodberg, H. H.
A1  - Jopp, E.
A1  - Kirchengast, S.
A1  - Tutkuviene, J.
A1  - McIntyre, M. H.
A1  - Wittwer-Backofen, U.
A1  - Boldsen, J. L.
A1  - Martin, D. D.
A1  - Meier, J.
T1  - Diversity in auxology: between theory and practice Proceedings of the 18th Aschauer Soiree, 13th November 2010
Y1  - 2012
SN  - 0003-5548
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Hermanussen, Michael
A1  - Lieberman, Leslie Su
A1  - Janewa, V. Schoenfeld
A1  - Scheffler, Christiane
A1  - Ghosh, Arunava
A1  - Bogin, Barry
A1  - Godina, Elena
A1  - Kaczmarek, M.
A1  - El-Shabrawi, M.
A1  - Salama, E. E.
A1  - Rühli, Frank J.
A1  - Staub, Kaspar
A1  - Woitek, U.
A1  - Blaha, Pawel
A1  - Aßmann, Christian
A1  - van Buuren, Stef
A1  - Lehmann, A.
A1  - Satake, T.
A1  - Thodberg, H. H.
A1  - Jopp, E.
A1  - Kirchengast, S.
A1  - Tutkuviene, J.
A1  - McIntyre, M. H.
A1  - Wittwer-Backofen, U.
A1  - Boldsen, Jesper L.
A1  - Martin, D. D.
A1  - Meier, J.
T1  - Diversity in auxology between theory and practice
JF  - Journal of biological and clinical anthropology : Anthropologischer Anzeiger ; Mitteilungsorgan der Gesellschaft für Anthropologie
N2  - Auxology has developed from mere describing child and adolescent growth into a vivid and interdisciplinary research area encompassing human biologists, physicians, social scientists, economists and biostatisticians. The meeting illustrated the diversity in auxology, with the various social, medical, biological and biostatistical aspects in studies on child growth and development.
KW  - child growth
KW  - adolescent growth
KW  - child development
KW  - height
KW  - weight
KW  - body mass
KW  - socio-economic environment
Y1  - 2012
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1127/0003-5548/2012/0133
SN  - 0003-5548
VL  - 69
IS  - 2
SP  - 159
EP  - 174
PB  - Schweizerbart
CY  - Stuttgart
ER  - 
TY  - GEN
A1  - Hermanussen, Michael
A1  - Ipsen, Josefin
A1  - Mumm, Rebekka
A1  - Assmann, Christian
A1  - Quitmann, Julia
A1  - Gomula, Aleksandra
A1  - Lehmann, Andreas
A1  - Jasch, Isabelle
A1  - Tassenaar, Vincent
A1  - Bogin, Barry
A1  - Satake, Takashi
A1  - Scheffler, Christiane
A1  - Nunez, Javier
A1  - Godina, Elena
A1  - Hardeland, Ruediger
A1  - Boldsen, Jesper L.
A1  - El-Shabrawi, Mortada
A1  - Elhusseini, Mona
A1  - Barbu, Carmen Gabriela
A1  - Pop, Ralucca
A1  - Soederhaell, Jani
A1  - Merker, Andrea
A1  - Swanson, James
A1  - Groth, Detlef
T1  - Stunted Growth. Proceedings of the 23rd Aschauer Soiree, Held at Aschauhof, Germany, November 7th 2015
T2  - Pediatric Endocrinology Reviews
N2  - 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.
KW  - Adolescent growth
KW  - Peer group
KW  - Growth hormone
KW  - Community effect
KW  - Body height
Y1  - 2016
SN  - 1565-4753
VL  - 13
SP  - 756
EP  - 767
PB  - Medical Media
CY  - Netanya
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Bogin, Barry
A1  - Scheffler, Christiane
A1  - Hermanussen, Michael
T1  - Global effects of income and income inequality on adult height and sexual dimorphism in height
JF  - American journal of human biology : the official journal of the Human Biology Council
N2  - Objectives: Average adult height of a population is considered a biomarker of the quality of the health environment and economic conditions. The causal relationships between height and income inequality are not well understood. We analyze data from 169 countries for national average heights of men and women and national-level economic factors to test two hypotheses: (1) income inequality has a greater association with average adult height than does absolute income; and (2) neither income nor income inequality has an effect on sexual dimorphism in height. Methods: Average height data come from the NCD-RisC health risk factor collaboration. Economic indicators are derived from the World Bank data archive and include gross domestic product (GDP), Gross National Income per capita adjusted for personal purchasing power (GNI_ PPP), and income equality assessed by the Gini coefficient calculated by the Wagstaff method. Results: Hypothesis 1 is supported. Greater income equality is most predictive of average height for both sexes. GNI_ PPP explains a significant, but smaller, amount of the variation. National GDP has no association with height. Hypothesis 2 is rejected. With greater average adult height there is greater sexual dimorphism. Conclusions: Findings support a growing literature on the pernicious effects of inequality on growth in height and, by extension, on health. Gradients in height reflect gradients in social disadvantage. Inequality should be considered a pollutant that disempowers people from the resources needed for their own healthy growth and development and for the health and good growth of their children.
Y1  - 2017
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1002/ajhb.22980
SN  - 1042-0533
SN  - 1520-6300
VL  - 29
IS  - 2
PB  - Wiley
CY  - Hoboken
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  - Bogin, Barry
A1  - Hermanussen, Michael
A1  - Scheffler, Christiane
T1  - As tall as my peers
BT  - similarity in body height between migrants and hosts
JF  - Journal of biological and clinical anthropology
JF  - Anthropologischer Anzeiger ; Mitteilungsorgan der Gesellschaft für Anthropologie
N2  - Background: We define migrants as people who move from their place of birth to a new place of residence. Migration usually is directed by "Push-Pull" factors, for example to escape from poor living conditions or to find more prosperous socio-economic conditions. Migrant children tend to assimilate quickly, and soon perceive themselves as peers within their new social networks. Differences exist between growth of first generation and second generation migrants. Methods: We review body heights and height distributions of historic and modern migrant populations to test two hypotheses: 1) that migrant and adopted children coming from lower social status localities to higher status localities adjust their height growth toward the mean of the dominant recipient social network, and 2) social dominant colonial and military migrants display growth that significantly surpasses the median height of both the conquered population and the population of origin. Our analytical framework also considered social networks. Recent publications indicate that spatial connectedness (community effects) and social competitiveness can affect human growth. Results: Migrant children and adolescents of lower social status rapidly adjust in height towards average height of their hosts, but tend to mature earlier, and are prone to overweight. The mean height of colonial/military migrants does surpass that of the conquered and origin population. Conclusion: Observations on human social networks, non-human animal strategic growth adjustments, and competitive growth processes strengthen the concept of social connectedness being involved in the regulation of human migrant growth.
KW  - growth of migrants
KW  - community effect on height
KW  - dominance
KW  - strategic growth adjustments
KW  - competitive growth
Y1  - 2018
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1127/anthranz/2018/0828
SN  - 0003-5548
VL  - 74
IS  - 5
SP  - 365
EP  - 376
PB  - Schweizerbart
CY  - Stuttgart
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Hermanussen, Michael
A1  - Bogin, Barry
A1  - Scheffler, Christiane
T1  - Stunting, starvation and refeeding
BT  - a review of forgotten 19th and early 20th century literature
JF  - Acta paediatrica : nurturing the child
N2  - Aim: To scrutinize to what extent modern ideas about nutrition effects on growth are supported by historic observations in European populations. Method: We reviewed 19th and early 20th century paediatric journals in the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, the third largest European library with an almost complete collection of the German medical literature. During a three-day visit, we inspected 15 bookshelf meters of literature not available in electronic format. Results: Late 19th and early 20th century breastfed European infants and children, independent of social strata, grew far below World Health Organisation (WHO) standards and 15-30% of adequately-fed children would be classified as stunted by the WHO standards. Historic sources indicate that growth in height is largely independent of the extent and nature of the diet. Height catch-up after starvation was greater than catch-up reported in modern nutrition intervention studies, and allowed for unimpaired adult height. Conclusion: Historical studies are indispensable to understand why stunting does not equate with undernutrition and why modern diet interventions frequently fail to prevent stunting. Appropriateness and effect size of modern nutrition interventions on growth need revision.
KW  - Child growth
KW  - Historic literature
KW  - Refeeding
KW  - Stunting
KW  - Undernutrition
Y1  - 2018
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1111/apa.14311
SN  - 0803-5253
SN  - 1651-2227
VL  - 107
IS  - 7
SP  - 1166
EP  - 1176
PB  - Wiley
CY  - Hoboken
ER  - 
TY  - GEN
A1  - Hermanussen, Michael
A1  - Scheffler, Christiane
A1  - Groth, Detlef
A1  - Bogin, Barry
T1  - Perceiving stunting - Student research and the "Lieschen Muller effect" in nutrition science
T2  - Journal of biological and clinical anthropology : Anthropologischer Anzeiger ; Mitteilungsorgan der Gesellschaft für Anthropologie
KW  - stunting
KW  - undernutrition
KW  - strategic growth adjustments
KW  - competitive growth
KW  - community effect on height
Y1  - 2018
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1127/anthranz/2018/0858
SN  - 0003-5548
VL  - 74
IS  - 5
SP  - 355
EP  - 358
PB  - Schweizerbart
CY  - Stuttgart
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Bogin, Barry
A1  - Varea, Carlos
A1  - Hermanussen, Michael
A1  - Scheffler, Christiane
T1  - Human life course biology
BT  - a centennial perspective of scholarship on the human pattern of physical growth and its place in human biocultural evolution
JF  - American journal of physical anthropology
KW  - adolescence
KW  - childhood
KW  - life history
KW  - menopause
KW  - senescence
Y1  - 2018
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.23357
SN  - 0002-9483
SN  - 1096-8644
VL  - 165
IS  - 4
SP  - 834
EP  - 854
PB  - Wiley
CY  - Hoboken
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Hermanussen, Michael
A1  - Pulungan, Aman B.
A1  - Scheffler, Christiane
A1  - Mumm, Rebekka
A1  - Rogol, Alan D.
A1  - Pop, Raluca
A1  - Swanson, James M.
A1  - Sonuga-Barke, Edmund
A1  - Reimann, Anna
A1  - Siniarska-Wolanska, Anna
A1  - Musalek, Martin
A1  - Bogin, Barry
A1  - Boldsen, Jesper L.
A1  - Tassenaar, (Vincent)
A1  - Groth, Detlef
A1  - Liu, Yuk-Chien
A1  - Meigen, Christof
A1  - Quanjer, Bjorn
A1  - Thompson, Kristina
A1  - Ozer, Baak Koca
A1  - Bryl, Ewa
A1  - Mamrot, Paula
A1  - Hanc, Tomasz
A1  - Koziel, Slawomir
A1  - Soderhall, Jani
A1  - Gomula, Aleksandra
A1  - Banik, Sudip Datta
A1  - Roelants, Mathieu
A1  - Veldre, Gudrun
A1  - Lieberman, Leslie Sue
A1  - Sievert, Lynnette Leidy
T1  - Meeting Reports
BT  - The Role of Beliefs and Perception on Body Size. Proceedings of the 26th Aschauer Soiree, Held at Aschauhof, Altenhof, Germany, May 26th, 2018
JF  - Pediatric Endocrinology Reviews
N2  - 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.
KW  - Body size
KW  - Social group
KW  - Social network
KW  - Body perception
KW  - Competitive growth strategies
KW  - Growth adjustment
Y1  - 2019
U6  - https://doi.org/10.17458/per.vol16.2019.hps.mr.26achauersoiree
SN  - 1565-4753
VL  - 16
IS  - 3
SP  - 383
EP  - 400
PB  - Medical Media
CY  - Netanya
ER  -