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  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Reimann, Anna
A1  - Beyer, Rudolf
A1  - Mumm, Rebekka
A1  - Scheffler, Christiane
T1  - Reference tables with centiles of limb to body height ratios of healthy human adults for assessing potential thalidomide embryopathy
JF  - Journal of biological and clinical anthropology : Anthropologischer Anzeiger ; Mitteilungsorgan der Gesellschaft für Anthropologie
N2  - Background: Over 60 years ago the biggest drug catastrophe in Germany took place. The drug thalidomide, sold by the German pharmaceutical company Chemie Grunenthal GmbH starting in 1957 under the name "Contergan", caused severe birth defects in newborns. Chemie Grunenthal withdraw Contergan in 1961. Until nearly 30 years later in 1988 there were already over 10.000 children born with severe birth defects (e.g. dysmelia, amelia, congenital heart defect). Due to the high variability of the birth defects caused by thalidomide, later called thalidomide embryopathy, there is still no detailed information about the proportions of limbs. Aim: The aim is to develop reference centiles for limb measurements of men and women aged 19-70 years old. Method: For the calculation, data of healthy men and women (m = 2984, f = 2838) from former East Germany were used and centiles using the LMS-method were developed. Results: Centile tables for arm and leg length of men and women are presented in the results. The variability is small due to a homogeneous distribution of the measurements. A test with randomly chosen patient data shows that women under 171 cm stature and men under 180 cm stature can be assessed correctly. A severe shortening of limbs can be detected with this method.
KW  - thalidomide embryopathy
KW  - contergan
KW  - anthropometry
KW  - body proportions
Y1  - 2019
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1127/anthranz/2019/0981
SN  - 0003-5548
VL  - 76
IS  - 5
SP  - 391
EP  - 400
PB  - Schweizerbart
CY  - Stuttgart
ER  -