Advances in pubertal growth and factors influencing it: Can we increase pubertal growth?

Soliman, Ashraf T.; Sanctis, Vincenzo De; Elalaily, Rania; Bedair, Said

doi:10.4103/2230-8210.145075

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“…IGF‐I plays a fundamental role in the regulation of growth in height . In our analyses, height had modest positive associations with IGF‐I and IGFBP‐3, and a marked inverse association with IGFBP‐1.…”

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The associations of anthropometric, behavioural and sociodemographic factors with circulating concentrations of IGF‐I, IGF‐II, IGFBP‐1, IGFBP‐2 and IGFBP‐3 in a pooled analysis of 16,024 men from 22 studies

Watts

Pérez-Cornago

Appleby

et al. 2019

Intl Journal of Cancer

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Insulin-like growth factors (IGFs) and insulin-like growth factor binding proteins (IGFBPs) have been implicated in the aetiology of several cancers. To better understand whether anthropometric, behavioural, and sociodemographic factors may play a role in cancer risk via IGF signalling, we examined the cross-sectional associations of these exposures with circulating concentrations of IGFs (IGF-I, IGF-II) and IGFBPs (IGFBP-1, IGFBP-2, IGFBP-3). The Endogenous Hormones, Nutritional Biomarkers and Prostate Cancer Collaborative Group dataset includes individual participant data from 16,024 male controls (i.e. without prostate cancer) aged 22-89 years from 22 prospective studies. Geometric means of protein concentrations were estimated using analysis of variance, adjusted for relevant covariates. Older age was associated with higher concentrations of IGFBP-1 and IGFBP-2 and lower concentrations of IGF-I, IGF-II, and IGFBP-3. Higher body mass index was associated with lower concentrations of IGFBP-1 and IGFBP-2. Taller height was associated with higher concentrations of IGF-I and IGFBP-3 and lower concentrations of IGFBP-1. Smokers had higher concentrations of IGFBP-1 and IGFBP-2 and lower concentrations of IGFBP-3 than non-smokers. Higher alcohol consumption was associated with higher concentrations of IGF-II and lower concentrations of IGF-I and IGFBP-2. African Americans had lower concentrations of IGF-II, IGFBP-1, IGFBP-2 and IGFBP-3 and Hispanics had lower IGF-I, IGF-II and IGFBP-3 than non-Hispanic whites. These findings indicate that a range of anthropometric, behavioural, and sociodemographic factors are associated with circulating concentrations of IGFs and IGFBPs in men, which will lead to a greater understanding of the mechanisms through which these factors influence cancer risk.

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The associations of anthropometric, behavioural and sociodemographic factors with circulating concentrations of IGF‐I, IGF‐II, IGFBP‐1, IGFBP‐2 and IGFBP‐3 in a pooled analysis of 16,024 men from 22 studies

Watts

Pérez-Cornago

Appleby

et al. 2019

Intl Journal of Cancer

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“…In addition to compensatory growth, it is possible that growth spurts are regulated through hormonal mechanisms such as the pubertal growth spurt (Soliman et al 2014), although very little is known about this mechanism in reptiles (Ball & Wade 2013). While no studies have been conducted regarding this phenomenon in sea turtles, Lance et al (2015) found a rise in testosterone levels associated with a growth spurt in male alligators Alligator mississippiensis.…”

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“…compensatory growth) (Bjorndal et al 2003). Growth spurts may also occur in response to hormonal changes such as those associated with puberty (Soliman et al 2014), although little is known about this mechanism in reptiles (Ball & Wade 2013).…”

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Impact of exceptional growth rates on estimations of life-stage duration in Hawaiian green sea turtles

Murakawa¹,

Snover²

2018

Endang. Species. Res.

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“…Based on the growth curves, the incompatibility of healthy adolescents’ height/weight growth in comparison with the average in their peers may evoke the concern of parents (Rogol & Hayden, 2014). It is important for some parents to have the adult height of their children in pre-/early adolescence predicted by experts and, if necessary, they should try to increase their height (Carel, 2004; Soliman, De Sanctis, Elalaily, & Bedair, 2014). …”

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Parents’ concerns regarding the growth characteristics of their adolescents: a qualitative inquiry in Iran

Cheraghi

Rezasoltani

Vedadhir

et al. 2018

International Journal of Qualitative Studies on Health and Well

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In recent times, parents have become increasingly concerned, both subjectively and objectively, about their adolescents' body height/weight growth. Parent-adolescent interactions about this issue and the potential socio-psychological consequences of such interactions should be considered as an important influencing factor on the future of adolescents' sexual and reproductive health. To achieve a greater understanding of such concerns, it is necessary to further elucidate parents' experiences on this topic, so as to expand the existing literature. This study aimed to explain the perceptions of parents' concerns regarding their adolescents' growth characteristics in the socio-cultural context of Iran as a transitional society. This paper is part of a larger qualitative study designed using the Constructivist Grounded Theory Methodology (CGTM). We conducted open-ended intensive interviews with eleven parents individually and recruited them through purposeful and theoretical sampling from a teaching hospital, community, and a primary school in Tehran with theoretical sampling variation in terms of teenagers' age, sex, and birth order, place of residence, parents' occupation and education, and the self-reported socio-economic status. Using the analytical procedures of the CGTM, we performed analyses. In the findings, the concept of 'living with constant sense of uncertainty' emerged from the subcategories including 'feeling existing and potential concern about expected minimum and maximum bio-positions of growth,' 'feeling potential concern about biological health consequences,' 'feeling potential concern about the emergence of early/late maturity signs,' 'feeling potential concern about adolescent's emotional threat,' 'feeling concerned about future employment, education, marriage, and fertility,' and 'feeling potential concern about the society's view'. These findings suggest that parents are living with a constant sense of uncertainty about their teens' growth characteristics throughout the transition from adolescence. All stakeholders including parents, health-care practitioners and policymakers, and anthropologists/sociologists should be focus on such concerns, in order to manage them and their possible socio-psychological burdens.

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Advances in pubertal growth and factors influencing it: Can we increase pubertal growth?

Cited by 124 publications

References 111 publications

The associations of anthropometric, behavioural and sociodemographic factors with circulating concentrations of IGF‐I, IGF‐II, IGFBP‐1, IGFBP‐2 and IGFBP‐3 in a pooled analysis of 16,024 men from 22 studies

The associations of anthropometric, behavioural and sociodemographic factors with circulating concentrations of IGF‐I, IGF‐II, IGFBP‐1, IGFBP‐2 and IGFBP‐3 in a pooled analysis of 16,024 men from 22 studies

Impact of exceptional growth rates on estimations of life-stage duration in Hawaiian green sea turtles

Parents’ concerns regarding the growth characteristics of their adolescents: a qualitative inquiry in Iran

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