TY  - JOUR
A1  - Lehmann, Andreas
A1  - Floris, Joël
A1  - Woitek, Ulrich
A1  - Ruehli, Frank J.
A1  - Staub, Kaspar
T1  - Temporal trends, regional variation and socio-economic differences in height, BMI and body proportions among German conscripts, 1956-2010
JF  - Public Health Nutrition
N2  - Objective: We analyse temporal trends and regional variation among the most recent available anthropometric data from German conscription in the years 2008-2010 and their historical contextualization since 1956. Design/setting/subjects: The overall sample included German conscripts (N 13 857 313) from 1956 to 2010. Results: German conscripts changed from growing in height to growing in breadth. Over the analysed 54 years, average height of 19-year-old conscripts increased by 6.5 cm from 173.5 cm in 1956 (birth year 1937) to 180.0 cm in 2010 (birth year 1991). This increase plateaued since the 1990s (1970s birth years). The increase in average weight, however, did not lessen during the last two decades but increased in two steps: at the end of the 1980s and after 1999. The weight and BMI distributions became increasingly right-skewed, the prevalence of overweight and obesity increased from 11.6 % and 2.1 % in 1984 to 19.9 % and 8.5 % in 2010, respectively. The north-south gradient in height (north = taller) persisted during our observations. Height and weight of conscripts from East Germany matched the German average between the early 1990s and 2009. Between the 1980s and the early 1990s, the average chest circumference increased, the average difference between chest circumference when inhaling and exhaling decreased, as did leg length relative to trunk length. Conclusions: Measuring anthropometric data for military conscripts yielded year-by-year monitoring of the health status of young men at a proscribed age. Such findings contribute to a more precise identification of groups at risk and thus help with further studies and to target interventions.
KW  - Stature
KW  - Obesity
KW  - Secular height trend
Y1  - 2017
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1017/S1368980016002408
SN  - 1368-9800
SN  - 1475-2727
VL  - 20
IS  - 3
SP  - 391
EP  - 403
PB  - Cambridge Univ. Press
CY  - Cambridge
ER  - 
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  -