TY  - JOUR
A1  - Rösler, Antonia
A1  - Scheffler, Christiane
A1  - Hermanussen, Michael
T1  - No evidence of growth impairment after forced migration in Polish school children after World War II
JF  - Human biology and public health
N2  - 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.
KW  - nutrition
KW  - stunting
KW  - socioeconomy
KW  - education
KW  - secular changes
KW  - pubertal timing
Y1  - 2023
U6  - https://doi.org/10.52905/hbph2023.1.68
SN  - 2748-9957
VL  - 1
PB  - Universitätsverlag Potsdam
CY  - Potsdam
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  -