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No correlation between short term weight gain and lower leg length gain in healthy German children
- Background: Length-for-age is considered the indicator of choice in monitoring the long-term impact of chronic nutritional deficiency. Aim: We hypothesized that short term increments of body weight cross-correlate with increments of the lower leg length. Sample and methods: We re-analyzed the association between weekly measurements of weight and of lower leg length in 34 healthy German children, aged 2.9-15.9 years. The data are a subset of measurements originally published in 1988 (Hermanussen et al. 1988a). As the growth measurements were often not equally spaced in time due to interposed holidays and illness, the incremental rates for weight and lower leg length were smoothed using spline functions. Autocorrelation and cross-correlation functions were calculated for weight increments and lower leg length increments. Results: Height and weight increments are pulsatile. Autocorrelations indicated that mini growth spurts occur at irregular intervals. Lack of cross-correlations between weight and lower leg length indicatedBackground: Length-for-age is considered the indicator of choice in monitoring the long-term impact of chronic nutritional deficiency. Aim: We hypothesized that short term increments of body weight cross-correlate with increments of the lower leg length. Sample and methods: We re-analyzed the association between weekly measurements of weight and of lower leg length in 34 healthy German children, aged 2.9-15.9 years. The data are a subset of measurements originally published in 1988 (Hermanussen et al. 1988a). As the growth measurements were often not equally spaced in time due to interposed holidays and illness, the incremental rates for weight and lower leg length were smoothed using spline functions. Autocorrelation and cross-correlation functions were calculated for weight increments and lower leg length increments. Results: Height and weight increments are pulsatile. Autocorrelations indicated that mini growth spurts occur at irregular intervals. Lack of cross-correlations between weight and lower leg length indicated that mini spurts in weight gain do not coincide with mini spurts in length gain even when considering lag times of up to 10 weeks. Short term changes of weight gain and lower leg length gain in healthy children show no temporal association.…
Verfasserangaben: | Arusa Maqsood, Daniel J. NaumenkoORCiD, Michael HermanussenORCiDGND, Christiane SchefflerORCiDGND, Detlef GrothORCiDGND |
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DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1127/anthranz/2020/1237 |
ISSN: | 0003-5548 |
ISSN: | 2363-7099 |
Pubmed ID: | https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32432642 |
Titel des übergeordneten Werks (Englisch): | Journal of biological and clinical anthropology : Anthropologischer Anzeiger ; Mitteilungsorgan der Gesellschaft für Anthropologie |
Verlag: | Schweizerbart |
Verlagsort: | Stuttgart |
Publikationstyp: | Wissenschaftlicher Artikel |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Datum der Erstveröffentlichung: | 20.05.2020 |
Erscheinungsjahr: | 2020 |
Datum der Freischaltung: | 01.06.2023 |
Freies Schlagwort / Tag: | knemometry; lower leg length; mini growth spurts; short term growth |
Band: | 77 |
Ausgabe: | 5 |
Seitenanzahl: | 5 |
Erste Seite: | 399 |
Letzte Seite: | 403 |
Fördernde Institution: | Auxological Society (Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Auxologie); Society of; Anthropology (Gesellschaft fur Anthropologie); University of Potsdam,; Germany |
Organisationseinheiten: | Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Institut für Biochemie und Biologie |
DDC-Klassifikation: | 6 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften / 61 Medizin und Gesundheit / 610 Medizin und Gesundheit |
Peer Review: | Referiert |
Publikationsweg: | Open Access / Hybrid Open-Access |
Lizenz (Deutsch): | CC-BY-NC - Namensnennung, nicht kommerziell 4.0 International |