Prevention and anthropology
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2295065 |
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| Authors | Eilin Jopp, Christiane Scheffler (0000-0003-1954-7578), Michael Hermanussen (0000-0003-4037-1597) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 71 |
| Issue | 1-2 |
| Pages | 135-141 |
| Publication date | 2014-03-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Anthropologischer Anzeiger (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-5548 • E-ISSN: 2363-7099 |
| Publisher | S ch we iz er ba rt (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1127/0003-5548/2014/0384 |
| PMID | 24818444 |
| OpenAlex | W2321336193 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 6 |
Screening is an important issue in medicine and is used to early identify unrecognised diseases in persons who are apparently in good health. Screening strongly relies on the concept of "normal values". Normal values are defined as values that are frequently observed in a population and usually range within certain statistical limits. Screening for obesity should start early as the prevalence of obesity consolidates already at early school age. Though widely practiced, measuring BMI is not the ultimate solution for detecting obesity. Children with high BMI may be "robust" in skeletal dimensions. Assessing skeletal robustness and in particularly assessing developmental tempo in adolescents are also important issues in health screening. Yet, in spite of the necessity of screening investigations, appropriate reference values are often missing. Meanwhile, new concepts of growth diagrams have been developed. Stage line diagrams are useful for tracking developmental processes over time. Functional data analyses have efficiently been used for analysing longitudinal growth in height and assessing the tempo of maturation. Convenient low-cost statistics have also been developed for generating synthetic national references.
Biology · Data mining · Environmental health · Longitudinal data · Obesity · Pathology · Population · Robustness (evolution) · Sociology · Tracking (education) · Birth, Development, and Health · Computer Science · Demography · Medicine · Obesity and Health Practices · Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet · Psychology · Gerontology
Decreased external skeletal robustness due to reduced physical activity
Prevalence and socio-demographic correlates of the compliance with the physical activity guidelines in children and adolescents in Germany
Statistical agreement and cost–benefit
Critical periods in human growth and their relationship to diseases of aging
Analysis of BMI of Preschool Children Results of Longitudinal Studies
| Highly cited | No |
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