Stunted Growth. Proceedings of the 23rd Aschauer Soiree, Held at Aschauhof, Germany, November 7th 2015.
Year: 2016
Type: article
Abstract: Twenty-four scientists met at Aschauhof, Altenhof, Germany, to discuss the associations between child growth and development, and nutrition, health, environment and psychology. Meta-analyses of body height, height variability and household inequality, in historic and modern growth studies published since 1794, highlighting the enormously flexible patterns of child and adolescent height and weight increments throughout history which do not only depend on genetics, prenatal development, nutrition, health, and economic circumstances, but reflect social interactions. A Quality of Life in Short Stature Youth Questionnaire was presented to cross-culturally assess health-related quality of life in children. Changes of child body proportions in recent history, the relation between height and longevity in historic Dutch samples and also measures of body height in skeletal remains belonged to the topics of this meeting. Bayesian approaches and Monte Carlo simulations offer new statistical tools for the study of human growth.
Source: PubMed
Authors: Michael Hermanussen, Josefin Ipsen, Rebekka Mumm, Christian Assmann, Julia Quitmann, Aleksandra Gomula, Andreas Lehmann, Isabelle Jasch, Vincent Tassenaar, Barry Bogin, Takashi Satake, Christiane Scheffler, Javier Núñez, Elena Godina, Rüdiger Hardeland, Jesper Boldsen, Mortada El-Shabrawi, Mona Elhusseini, Carmen Gabriela Barbu, Ralucca Pop, Jani Söderhäll, Andrea Merker, James Swanson, Detlef Groth
Language: English
Topic: Human Health and Disease
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2509824194