Auxology: studying human growth and development / Michael Hermanussen (ed.)

Bibliografía: páginas 295-317

Glossary: páginas 281-294

1. Introduction.. 1.1 Some Initial Remarks.. 1.2 A Short Introduction to Growth.. 2. Basics.. 2.1 Growth References and Growth Charts.. 2.2 Tempo and Amplitude.. 2.3 Short Term Growth and Mini Growth Spurts.. 2.4 Periodicity in Growth.. 2.5 Growth Tracking.. 2.6 Catch-up Growth.. 2.7 Rapid Growth.. 2.8 The Growth Plate.. 2.9 Growth Hormone.. 2.10 Negative Growth.. 3. Body Shape, Composition and Proportions.. 3.1 Types of Body Shape.. 3.2 Body Composition.. 3.3 Determining Body Composition in Field Studies.. 3.4 Body Size, Somatotype and Sports.. 3.5 Fluctuating Asymmetry.. 4. From Birth to Maturity.. 4.1 Comparative Biology and Human Life History.. 4.2 Foetal Programming and Epigenetics.. 4.3 Biological Age.. 4.4 Variation in Tempo.. 4.5 Twins.. 4.6 Very Low Birth Weight Children.. 4.7 Failure to Thrive during the First 2 Years.. 4.8 Signs of Sexual Maturation.. 4.9 Timing Puberty by Stage Line Diagrams.. 4.10 Menarcheal Age in Egypt.. 4.11 Adolescent Growth Spurt.. 4.12 Body Image and Body Size during Puberty.. 4.13 The Community Effect on Growth.. 4.14 The Community Effect in Swiss Conscripts.. 5. Height Predictions.. 5.1 Final Height.. 5.2 A Flow Chart to Final Height Prediction.. 5.3 Target Height.. 5.4 Final Height Prediction.. 5.5 Factors that Influence Bone Ageing.. 6. Prevention and Health.. 6.1 Breast Feeding.. 6.2 Infant, Toddler and Child Nutrition.. 6.3 Short and Tall Stature.. 6.4 Primary Growth Failure.. 6.5 Secondary Growth Failure.. 6.6 SGA and IUGR.. 6.7 The Shortest People: Pericentrin mutations.. 6.8 Growth in Diabetic Patients.. 6.9 Body Proportions in Relation to Health.. 6.10 Social Determinants of Health.. 6.11 Migrants.. 6.12 Childhood Obesity in Developing Countries.. 6.13 Childhood Obesity: The Impact of Migration.. 6.14 PEM in Children: Anthropometric Evaluation.. 6.15 Nutrition Transition in Developing Countries.. 6.16 How Good is the BMI for Detecting Obesity?.. 6.17 Comments on Obesity

6.18 Growth and Pollutants.. 7. Auxology of the Past.. 7.1 A Short History of the Study of Human Growth.. 7.2 Secular Trends.. 7.3 Trends in Amplitude and Tempo.. 7.4 How to Plot Secular Growth Changes.. 7.5 The History of Menarcheal Age.. 7.6 Impact and Pitfalls of Conscription Data.. 7.7 Conscript Height.. 7.8 Long Term Changes in Head Dimensions.. 7.9 Harris Lines.. 7.10 Growth and Death in the Past.. 8. Auxological Methods.. 8.1 Requirements for Anthropometric References.. 8.2 Measurement Error in Anthropometry.. 8.3 Standardised Measurements.. 8.4 Daily Home-made Measurements.. 8.5 Automated Bone Age Determination.. 8.6 Knemometry.. 8.7 Testing for Hormone Deficiency.. 9 Statistical Approaches.. 9.1 Statistics for Bunnies.. 9.2 Growth Velocity.. 9.3 SDS and LMS.. 9.4 Synthetic Growth Charts.. 9.5 Harmonising National Growth Charts.. 9.6 Stability and Instability in hSDS Changes.. 9.7 Jump Preserving Smoothing Technique.. 9.8 Rounding-Off and Heaping.. 9.9 Parametric and Non-Parametric Regression Models.. 9.10 Landmark based Statistical Shape Analysis.. 9.11 A Bayesian Approach towards Modelling Growth.. 9.12 Methods that still Lack Adequate Recognition.. 10. Miscellaneous.. 10.1 Geometry and Auxology.. 10.2 Finger Length Ratios.. 10.3 Patents in Auxology.. 10.4 Myths, Tales and Beliefs.. 11. Reference Values.. 11.1 National Growth References.. 11.2 References for Preterm Infants and Twins.. 11.3 Syndrome Specific Growth Charts.. 11.4 References for Growth Velocity.. 11.5 References for SD Score Changes.. 11.6 References for Tempo, Timing and Puberty.. 11.7 References for Sitting Height.. 11.8 Body Proportion Chart.. 11.9 References for MUAC, BF and Skinfold Thickness.. 11.10 References for WC and WHR.. 11.11 References and Equations for Body Composition.. 11.12 Body Surface and Ambiguous Genitalia.. 11.13 References for IGF1 and IGFBP3.. 12. Glossary.. 13. Literature and Internet Resources.. 14. Index

This new book is a comprehensive description of human physical growth and development (Auxology) with contributions by 56 internationally reputed experts. The entire spectrum of basic and advanced information on growth tracking, growth prediction, short-term-, catch-up- and rapid growth, nutritional and social factors influencing human growth, and issues related to preventive health care, growth in ethnic minorities and migrants, and growth in developing countries is presented. The text is generously illustrated by 270 colour figures and 89 comprehensive tables. The text also introduces new mathematical approaches to growth modelling and provides practical information on how to use and interpret growth charts. Current national references for height, weight, body mass index (BMI) and head circumference for various countries (US, ARG, BRA, CAN, IND, BEL, GER, IT, NL, PL, SW, SWI, TUR, UK, WHO) are provided, as are growth references for twins, preterm infants and syndrome specific growth charts for clinical purposes. The book is of greatest interest to all pediatricians, to medical students and students of human biology, health workers, nutritionists, medical staff and professionals interested in child and adolescent growth and development. eng