The estimation of pubertal growth spurt parameters using the superimposition by translation and rotation model in Korean children and adolescents: a longitudinal cohort study
Understanding the characteristics of the pubertal growth spurt in Korean children and adolescents can serve as crucial foundational data for researching puberty and growth-related disorders. This study aims to estimate the key parameters of pubertal growth, specifically the age and magnitude of the...
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Veröffentlicht in: | Frontiers in pediatrics 2024-09, Vol.12, p.1372013 |
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Zusammenfassung: | Understanding the characteristics of the pubertal growth spurt in Korean children and adolescents can serve as crucial foundational data for researching puberty and growth-related disorders. This study aims to estimate the key parameters of pubertal growth, specifically the age and magnitude of the pubertal growth spurt, utilizing longitudinal data from a cohort of Korean children and adolescents.
This study used mixed longitudinal height data from a cohort of Korean elementary, middle, and high school students aged 7-18 years. The Superimposition by Translation and Rotation (SITAR) model, a shape-invariant growth curve model, was utilized to estimate a reference height velocity curve for the entire dataset and individual curves via random effects to evaluate pubertal growth parameters. Altogether, 3,339 height measurements (1,519 for boys and 1,820 for girls) from 270 individuals (123 boys and 147 girls) were analyzed.
The average age of growth spurt onset in Korean boys was 10.17 ± 0.61 years (mean ± SE), with peak height velocity occurring at 12.46 ± 0.69 years of age (9.61 ± 1.26 cm/year). Korean girls, contrarily, experience their growth spurt at an earlier age (8.57 ± 0.68 years), with peak height velocity occurring at 10.99 ± 0.74 years of age (8.32 ± 1.09 cm/year). An earlier onset of puberty in both sexes is associated with a shorter growth spurt duration (0.63 years for boys and 0.58 years for girls) and a higher peak height velocity (1.82 cm/year for boys and 1.39 cm/year for girls). These associations were statistically significant for both sexes (all
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ISSN: | 2296-2360 2296-2360 |
DOI: | 10.3389/fped.2024.1372013 |