ArticleNutrients2021
Relationship between Dietary Creatine and Growth Indicators in Children and Adolescents Aged 2-19 Years: A Cross-Sectional Study.
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- Safety of creatine supplementation: analysis of the prevalence of reported side effects in clinical trials and adverse event reports.Journal of the International Society of Sports Nutrition · 2025Article
- Factors Affecting Thyroid Volume in Children Aged 4 to 18 Years.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Creatine supplementation is safe, beneficial throughout the lifespan, and should not be restricted.Frontiers in nutrition · 2025Article
- Mini-encyclopedia of mitochondria-relevant nutraceuticals protecting health in primary and secondary care-clinically relevant 3PM innovation.The EPMA journal · 2024Article
- The power of creatine plus resistance training for healthy aging: enhancing physical vitality and cognitive function.Frontiers in physiology · 2024Article
- The association between perchlorate in drinking water and height and weight of children and adolescents in Southwest China: a retrospective cross-sectional study.Frontiers in public health · 2023Review
- Bioavailability, Efficacy, Safety, and Regulatory Status of Creatine and Related Compounds: A Critical Review.Nutrients · 2022Review
- Perspective: Creatine, a Conditionally Essential Nutrient: Building the Case.Advances in nutrition (Bethesda, Md.) · 2022Article
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- Temporal trends in dietary creatine intake from 1999 to 2018: an ecological study with 89,161 participants.Journal of the International Society of Sports Nutrition · 2021Article
- Food Creatine and DXA-Derived Body Composition in Boys and Girls Aged 8 to 19 Years.Nutrition and metabolic insights · 2021Article
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Abstract
A possible role of dietary creatine for ensuring proper growth and development remains unknown. The main aim of this cross-sectional study was to quantify the amount of creatine consumed through regular diet among U.S. children and adolescents aged 2 to 19 years and investigate the relationship between creatine intake and growth indicators, using data from the 2001-2002 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES). We included data for NHANES 2001-2002 respondents (4291 participants, 2133 boys and 2158 girls) aged 2 to 19 years at the time of screening, who provided valid dietary information and examination measures (standing height and weight). Individual values for total grams of creatine consumed per day for each participant were computed using the average amount of creatine (3.88 g/kg) across all sources of meat-based foods. All participants were categorized for height-for-age and BMI-for-age categories. The average daily intake of creatine across the whole sample was 1.07 ± 1.07 g (95% CI, from 1.04 to 1.10). Height, weight, and BMI were significantly different across creatine quartiles (
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