ESPE Yearbook of Paediatric Endocrinology

Brief summary: In this paper introduced a new energy trade-off score (ETOS) and index to characterize four extreme human body types regarding height and weight in young adulthood (e.g. tall-slender, short-stout, short-slender, tall-stout) for growth patterns and underlying genetic background. Growth data of 1889 subjects (996 girls) of the GrowUp 1974 Gothenburg study were investigated for the four body types showing that the two trade-off body types tall-slender<...