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ReviewJournal of physiological anthropology2015

Height and skeletal morphology in relation to modern life style.

Michael Hermanussen, Christiane Scheffler, Detlef Groth, Christian Aßmann

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Review in Journal of physiological anthropology, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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4 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Youth Sport Specialization: Current Concepts and Clinical Guides.HSS journal : the musculoskeletal journal of Hospital for Special Surgery · 2024
    Review
  2. Association between lifestyle and height growth in high school students.Journal of family medicine and primary care · 2023
    Article
  3. Differences of body height, axial length, and refractive error at different ages in Kumejima study.Graefe's archive for clinical and experimental ophthalmology = Albrecht von Graefes Archiv fur klinische und experimentelle Ophthalmologie · 2019
    Article
  4. Evaluation of age-related differences in anterior cruciate ligament size.Knee surgery, sports traumatology, arthroscopy : official journal of the ESSKA · 2019
    Article
4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Michael HermanussenAschauhof 3, 24340, Altenhof, Germany. michael.hermanussen@gmail.com.
Christiane SchefflerInstitute of Biochemistry and Biology, University of Potsdam, 14469, Potsdam, Germany.
Detlef GrothInstitute of Biochemistry and Biology, University of Potsdam, 14476, Potsdam-Golm, Germany.
Christian AßmannChair of Statistics and Econometrics, Otto-Friedrich-University, 96045, Bamberg, Germany.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Height and skeletal morphology strongly relate to life style. Parallel to the decrease in physical activity and locomotion, modern people are slimmer in skeletal proportions. In German children and adolescents, elbow breadth and particularly relative pelvic breadth (50th centile of bicristal distance divided by body height) have significantly decreased in recent years. Even more evident than the changes in pelvic morphology are the rapid changes in body height in most modern countries since the end-19th and particularly since the mid-20th century. Modern Japanese mature earlier; the age at take-off (ATO, the age at which the adolescent growth spurt starts) decreases, and they are taller at all ages. Preece-Baines modelling of six national samples of Japanese children and adolescents, surveyed between 1955 and 2000, shows that this gain in height is largely an adolescent trend, whereas height at take-off (HTO) increased by less than 3 cm since 1955; adolescent growth (height gain between ATO and adult age) increased by 6 cm. The effect of globalization on the modern post-war Japanese society ("community effect in height") on adolescent growth is discussed.

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Life StyleAdolescentAdultBody HeightChildFemaleHumansJapanMaleReference ValuesYoung Adult

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PMID26642759
PMCPMC4672537

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