title: The Change of Stretched Penile Length and Anthropometric Data in Korean Children Aged 0-14 Years: Comparative Study of Last 25 Years.
abstract: There has been a great improvement in height and weight of Korean children owing to economic development over the last 25 years. This study aimed to evaluate the penile length of Korean children today and to compare it with a previous Korean study reported in 1987. The cross-sectional study was conducted with 909 Korean boys aged 0-14 years who had been brought to outpatient clinics of five tertiary hospitals (Busan, Ulsan, and Changwon) between September 2013 and May 2015. The stretched penile length (SPL) was measured and the testicular size was measured using orchidometry (mL). Student's t-test or Mann-Whitney U test was used to compare the result of our study and the study reported in 1987. SPL of Korean children gradually increased from 4.1 ± 0.8 cm at 0-1 year old to 9.6 ± 3.0 cm at 13-14 years old, the most rapidly during the age of 13. While body weight and testicular size significantly increased from 1987 in most of age groups, there were no significant changes in SPL although there was in some age groups. Height decreased in the infants < 1 year old and increased in the children > 6 years old. With the great economic development over the last quarter century in Korea, height, body weight, and testicular size of children significantly increased but there was no significant change in SPL except penile growth pattern.
authors.affiliation: Department of Urology, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Ulsan University Hospital, Ulsan, Korea.|School of Life Sciences, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, Ulsan, Korea.
authors.forename: Sungchan
authors.identifier: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2337-983X
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Park
authors.affiliation: Department of Urology, Pusan National University Yangsan Hospital and Research Institute for Convergence of Biomedical Science and Technology, Yangsan, Korea.
authors.forename: Jae Min
authors.identifier: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3593-9643
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Chung
authors.affiliation: Department of Urology, Inje University Busan Paik Hospital, Busan, Korea.
authors.forename: Dong Il
authors.identifier: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2283-4041
authors.initials: DI
authors.lastname: Kang
authors.affiliation: Department of Urology, Samsung Changwon Hospital, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Changwon, Korea.
authors.forename: Dong Soo
authors.identifier: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7557-0820
authors.initials: DS
authors.lastname: Ryu
authors.affiliation: Department of Urology, Dong-A University Hospital, Busan, Korea.
authors.forename: Won Yeol
authors.identifier: http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6640-7872
authors.initials: WY
authors.lastname: Cho
authors.affiliation: Department of Urology, Pusan National University Yangsan Hospital and Research Institute for Convergence of Biomedical Science and Technology, Yangsan, Korea. lsd@pusan.ac.kr.
authors.forename: Sang Don
authors.identifier: http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9459-3887
authors.initials: SD
authors.lastname: Lee
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D044466:Asian People; D001835:Body Weight; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008297:Male; D010413:Penis / Q000502:physiology*; D012016:Reference Values; D056910:Republic of Korea; D062606:Tertiary Care Centers
keywords: Anthropometry; Change; Child; Length; Penis