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Adult Height and Childhood Disease [PDF]

Demography, 2009
Taller populations are typically richer populations, and taller individuals live longer and earn more. In consequence, adult height has recently become a focus in understanding the relationship between health and wealth. We investigate the childhood determinants of population adult height, focusing on the respective roles of income and of disease ...
Carlos Bozzoli, Angus Deaton, Climent Quintana   +2 more
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Polygenic Scores and Parental Predictors: An Adult Height Study Based on the United Kingdom Biobank and the Framingham Heart Study

Frontiers in Genetics, 2021
Human height is a polygenic trait, influenced by a large number of genomic loci. In the pre-genomic era, height prediction was based largely on parental height. More recent predictions of human height have made great strides by integrating genotypic data
Chong You, Zhenwei Zhou, Jia Wen, Yun Li, Cheng Heng Pang, Haoyang Du, Ziwen Wang, Xiao-Hua Zhou, Daniel A. King, Ching-Ti Liu, Jie Huang, Jie Huang   +11 more
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Adult height in Noonan syndrome [PDF]

American Journal of Medical Genetics Part A, 2003
AbstractShort stature is a very common manifestation of Noonan syndrome (NS) and is accompanied by a variable delay in bone age. Although reports of adult height in NS are uncommon, some feel growth hormone therapy will increase adult height. We report our findings in 73 adults over 21 years of age with NS.
Jacqueline A, Noonan, Renske, Raaijmakers, Bryan D, Hall   +2 more
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Efficacy and safety of a 4-year combination therapy of growth hormone and gonadotropin-releasing hormone analogue in pubertal girls with short predicted adult height

Frontiers in Endocrinology, 2023
ObjectivesTo improve adult height in pubertal girls with a poor height prediction, treatment with growth hormone (GH) can be used in combination with a gonadotropin releasing hormone agonist (GnRHa), to delay closure of the growth plates.
Hilde Dotremont, Hilde Dotremont, Annick France, Annick France, Claudine Heinrichs, Sylvie Tenoutasse, Cécile Brachet, Martine Cools, Kathleen De Waele, Guy Massa, Marie-Christine Lebrethon, Inge Gies, Jesse Van Besien, Christine Derycke, Mathieu Ziraldo, Jean De Schepper, Jean De Schepper, Véronique Beauloye, Stijn Verhulst, Stijn Verhulst, Raoul Rooman, Marieke den Brinker, Marieke den Brinker   +22 more
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No association between adult height and Parkinson's disease

International Journal of Noncommunicable Diseases, 2023
There is a relative lack of evidence on Parkinson's disease (PD) associated with adult height. From the National Health Insurance Service-National Sample Cohort, data from 116,139 participants aged 40–80 years who conducted health examinations during ...
Younggee Jeong, Seulggie Choi, Sang Min Park, In Cheol Hwang   +3 more
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Spontaneous final adult height in patients with idiopathic short stature [PDF]

Pediatric Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism
Magdalena Banaszak-Ziemska, Karolina Grochowska, Marek Niedziela   +2 more
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Comparison of Commonly Used Methods to Predict the Final Height in Constitutional Tall Stature

JCRPE, 2023
INTRODUCTION: To determine the accuracy of adult height prediction in children with constitutional tall stature. METHODS: The medical records of 138 non-syndromatic prepubertal and early pubertal children (52 male, 86 female) with a height of ≥90th ...
Alma Kamar Matias, Evgenia Nizkorodov, Gilad Twig, Lilos Pearl, Zvi Laron   +4 more
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Prediction of adult height [PDF]

Pediatric Research, 1978
Different methods of height prediction were compared in healthy subjects of known adult height, 30 males and 30 females. Predictions were made yearly at ages 8-17 years. Epiphyseal bone age (BA) was determined with Greulich-Pyle Atlas (G-P) and TW 2 RUS.
H L Lenko, J Perbeentupa
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A Prospective Longitudinal Assessment of Linear Growth and Adult Height in Female Adolescents with Anorexia Nervosa.

Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism, 2020
CONTEXT Growth retardation is an established complication of anorexia nervosa (AN), however findings concerning adult height of AN patients are inconsistent. OBJECTIVE To assess linear growth and adult height in female adolescents with AN.
D. Modan-Moses, A. Yaroslavsky, O. Pinhas‐Hamiel, Y. Levy-Shraga, B. Kochavi, Sharon Iron-Segev, Adi Enoch-Levy, A. Toledano, D. Stein   +8 more
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The Association Between Adult Height and Stroke Incidence in Japanese Men and Women: A Population-based Case-Control Study

Journal of Epidemiology, 2023
Background: No studies have examined the associations between adult height and ischemic stroke subtypes. Methods: We conducted a population-based case-control study that included 2,451 thrombotic and 687 embolic stroke cases, as well as 1,623 ...
Yoshinobu Kondo, Hiroshi Yatsuya, Atsuhiko Ota, Shoji Matsumoto, Akihiro Ueda, Hirohisa Watanabe, Hideaki Toyoshima   +6 more
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