Relationships among biological growth parameters for body weight in Japanese children.

Longitudinal weight records for 360 boys and 345 girls from birth to young adulthood are used. The Count-Gompertz growth curve is fitted to individual growth records in order to characterize individual body weight growth. The authors present the mean-constant growth curves of boys and girls divided by weight at the peak weight velocity for boys and girls, and also girls are subdivided by their weight at menarche.

Relationship between adult stature and timing of the pubertal growth spurt.

Various literature report that little or no correlation exists between adult stature (AS) and the timing of the pubertal growth spurt in stature. No direct linear relationship between AS and age at peak height velocity (PHV) was evident in the Hiroshima Growth Study sample. However, the partial correlation between AS and age at PHV was negative when stature at PHV was controlled.

On a growth model of human height.

An asymptotic lifetime growth model of height is introduced by modifying a fundamental growth model considering a relative measure of maturity. This model is compared with the Preece-Baines model and the Jolicoeur et al. model for 365 Japanese females collected in Hiroshima.

Individual growth of stature of Japanese.

The growth of individual's stature of the Hiroshima Growth Study was characterized from early childhood to adulthood. The samples used here were 2,567 males and 971 females. A Gompertz type growth model was used for characterizing both an individual and an average growth of stature.