Observational studyPediatric research2016
Seasonal variations in growth and body composition of 8-11-y-old Danish children.
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- Association between time of assessment within a school year and physical fitness of primary school children.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Seasonality of Children's Height and Weight and Their Contribution to Accelerated Summer Weight Gain.Frontiers in physiology · 2022Article
- Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Seasonal Variations in Childhood and Adolescent Growth: Experience of Pediatric Endocrine Clinics.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
- Hormone seasonality in medical records suggests circannual endocrine circuits.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2021Article
- Effects of the KEIGAAF intervention on the BMI z-score and energy balance-related behaviors of primary school-aged children.The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity · 2020Article
- Physiological mechanisms underlying children's circannual growth patterns and their contributions to the obesity epidemic in elementary school age children.Obesity reviews : an official journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity · 2020Review
- Evaluating the seasonality of growth in infants using a mobile phone application.NPJ digital medicine · 2020Article
- Circannual growth in Wisconsin children and adolescents: Identifying optimal periods of obesity prevention.Pediatric obesity · 2020Article
- Correcting for artifactual correlation between misreported month of birth and attained height-for-age reduces but does not eliminate measured vulnerability to season of birth in poorer countries.The American journal of clinical nutrition · 2019Article
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Abstract
backgroundEarlier studies on seasonality in growth reported the largest height gains during spring and largest body weight gains during autumn. We examined seasonality in height, body weight, BMI, fat mass index (FMI), and fat-free mass index (FFMI) among contemporary Danish 8-11-y olds.
methodsA total of 760 children from the OPUS School Meal Study provided >2,200 measurements on height, body weight, and composition between September and June. Average velocities were calculated using change-score analyses based on 3-mo intervals. As a complementary analysis, point velocities derived from estimated growth curves were fitted using semiparametric regression that included covariate adjustment and allowed flexible modeling of the time trend.
resultsAverage velocities showed the following trends: height was higher than the average (6.10 cm/y) in January-April. Body weight was below the average (4.02 kg/y) in August-January and above in January-May; BMI (average: 0.49 kg/ m(2)/y) and FFMI (average: 0.17 kg/m(2)/y) showed similar trends. In contrast, FMI was above the average (0.38 kg/m(2)/y) in November-March. Similar trends were seen for point velocities.
conclusionOur findings suggest seasonality in growth and body composition of Danish children. We recovered the well-known height velocity peak during spring time, but unlike earlier studies, we found coincident peaks in body weight, BMI, and FFMI velocities.
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