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  - Parfenteva, Olga
A1  - Groth, Detlef
A1  - Scheffler, Christiane
A1  - Zaharova, Maria F.
T1  - Influence of the A/T polymorphism of the FTO gene and sport specializations on the body composition of young Russian athletes
JF  - Journal of biological and clinical anthropology : Anthropologischer Anzeiger ; Mitteilungsorgan der Gesellschaft für Anthropologie
N2  - Background: The polymorphism in FTO gene (rs9939609) is known to be associated with higher BMI and body fat mass content. However, environmental factors can modify this effect. The purpose of the present study was to investigate an association between sport specialization and the rs9939609 SNP in FTO gene in the cohort of professional and amateur young athletes. Methods: A total number of 250 young individuals 8-18 years old living in Moscow or Moscow district participated in the study. Individuals were divided into 3 groups in accordance with their physical activity level: control group (n = 49), amateurs (n = 67) and professionals (n = 137). Amateur and professional athletes were subdivided into groups according to their sport specialization. Quantile regression was used as a regression model, where the dependent (outcome) variable was BMI, along with percentage of body fat mass, and the independent variables (predictors) were the rs9939609 SNP in FTO gene, physical activity (active versus inactive), sport specialization (aerobic, intermittent sports and martial arts), nationality, level of sport experience (in years), gender and percentage of free fat mass content. Results: The regression analysis revealed that physical activity and sport specialization had greater impact compared to FTO allele in the group of physically active individuals. Physical activity, in particular aerobic, had negative associations with body fat mass and BMI. The rs9939609 SNP in FTO gene is associated with physical activity and aerobic activity. The magnitude of association becomes significantly larger at the upper quantiles of the body fat mass distribution. Conclusion: Physical activity and sport specialization explained more variance in body composition of physically active young individuals compared to the FTO polymorphism. Effect of interaction of physical activity, in particular aerobic, with the FTO polymorphism on body composition of young athletes was found.
KW  - physical activity
KW  - professional and amateur athletes
KW  - children and adolescents
KW  - BMI
KW  - percentage of fat mass
KW  - FTO
KW  - aerobic sports activity
KW  - quantile regression
Y1  - 2019
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1127/anthranz/2019/0943
SN  - 0003-5548
VL  - 76
IS  - 5
SP  - 401
EP  - 408
PB  - Schweizerbart
CY  - Stuttgart
ER  -