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Adult height and risk of 50 diseases: a combined epidemiological and genetic analysis

BMC Medicine, 2018
BackgroundAdult height is associated with risk of several diseases, but the breadth of such associations and whether these associations are primary or due to confounding are unclear.
F. Lai, M. Nath, Stephen E. Hamby, J. Thompson, C. Nelson, N. Samani   +5 more
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Adult height in Indian girls with turner syndrome treated with long-term growth hormone therapy — A Western India tertiary centre experience

Indian Journal of Endocrinology and Metabolism, 2023
Background and Objectives: Owing to paucity of data on adult height in Indian girls with Turner syndrome treated with growth hormone (GH), this study was conducted to assess improvement in height following GH therapy and adult height achieved with long ...
Vaman Khadilkar, Shruti Mondkar, Chirantap Oza, Ketan Gondhalekar, Anuradha Khadilkar   +4 more
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Rare and low-frequency coding variants alter human adult height

Nature, 2016
Height is a highly heritable, classic polygenic trait with approximately 700 common associated variants identified through genome-wide association studies so far.
E. Marouli, M. Graff, C. Medina-Gomez, K. S. Lo, A. Wood, Troels R. Kjaer, R. Fine, Yingchang Lu, C. Schurmann, H. Highland, S. Rüeger, G. Thorleifsson, A. Justice, David Lamparter, K. Stirrups, V. Turcot, K. Young, T. Winkler, T. Esko, T. Karaderi, A. Locke, N. Masca, M. Ng, Poorva Mudgal, M. Rivas, S. Vedantam, A. Mahajan, Xiuqing Guo, G. Abecasis, K. Aben, L. Adair, Dewan S. Alam, E. Albrecht, K. Allin, M. Allison, P. Amouyel, E. V. Appel, D. Arveiler, F. Asselbergs, P. Auer, B. Balkau, B. Banas, L. Bang, M. Benn, S. Bergmann, L. Bielak, M. Blüher, H. Boeing, E. Boerwinkle, C. Böger, L. Bonnycastle, J. Bork-Jensen, M. Bots, E. Bottinger, D. Bowden, I. Brandslund, G. Breen, M. Brilliant, L. Broer, A. Burt, A. Butterworth, D. Carey, M. Caulfield, J. Chambers, D. Chasman, Y. Chen, Rajiv Chowdhury, C. Christensen, Audrey Y. Chu, M. Cocca, F. Collins, J. Cook, J. Corley, J. Galbany, A. Cox, G. Cuéllar-Partida, J. Danesh, G. Davies, P. D. de Bakker, G. D. de Borst, S. de Denus, M. D. de Groot, R. de Mutsert, I. Deary, G. Dedoussis, E. Demerath, A. D. den Hollander, J. Dennis, E. di Angelantonio, F. Drenos, Mengmeng Du, A. Dunning, D. Easton, T. Ebeling, T. Edwards, P. Ellinor, P. Elliott, E. Evangelou, Aliki-Eleni Farmaki, J. Faul, M. Feitosa, Shuang Feng, E. Ferrannini, M. Ferrario, J. Ferrières, J. Florez, I. Ford, M. Fornage, P. Franks, R. Frikke-Schmidt, T. Galesloot, W. Gan, I. Gandin, P. Gasparini, V. Giedraitis, Ayush Giri, G. Girotto, S. Gordon, P. Gordon-Larsen, Mathias Gorski, N. Grarup, Megan L. Grove, V. Gudnason, S. Gustafsson, T. Hansen, K. Harris, T. Harris, A. Hattersley, C. Hayward, Liang He, I. Heid, K. Heikkilä, Ø. Helgeland, J. Hernesniemi, A. Hewitt, L. Hocking, Mette Hollensted, O. Holmen, G. K. Hovingh, J. Howson, C. Hoyng, Paul L. Huang, K. Hveem, M. Ikram, E. Ingelsson, A. Jackson, J. Jansson, G. Jarvik, G. Jensen, Min A. Jhun, Yucheng Jia, Xuejuan Jiang, S. Johansson, M. Jørgensen, T. Jørgensen, P. Jousilahti, J. Jukema, Bratati Kahali, R. Kahn, M. Kähönen, P. Kamstrup, S. Kanoni, J. Kaprio, Maria Karaleftheri, S. Kardia, F. Karpe, F. Kee, R. Keeman, L. Kiemeney, Hidetoshi Kitajima, K. Kluivers, T. Kocher, P. Komulainen, J. Kontto, J. Kooner, C. Kooperberg, P. Kovacs, J. Kriebel, H. Kuivaniemi, S. Küry, J. Kuusisto, Martina La Bianca, M. Laakso, T. Lakka, E. Lange, L. Lange, C. Langefeld, C. Langenberg, E. Larson, I. Lee, T. Lehtimäki, C. Lewis, Huaixing Li, Jin Li, R. Li-Gao, Honghuang Lin, Li-An Lin, Xu Lin, L. Lind, J. Lindström, A. Linneberg, Yeheng Liu, Yongmei Liu, A. Lophatananon, J. Luan, S. Lubitz, L. Lyytikäinen, D. Mackey, P. Madden, A. Manning, S. Männistö, G. Marenne, J. Marten, N. Martin, A. Mazul, K. Meidtner, A. Metspalu, P. Mitchell, K. Mohlke, D. Mook-Kanamori, A. Morgan, A. Morris, A. Morris, M. Müller-Nurasyid, P. Munroe, M. Nalls, M. Nauck, C. Nelson, M. Neville, S. F. Nielsen, K. Nikus, P. Njølstad, B. Nordestgaard, I. Ntalla, J. O’Connel, H. Oksa, L. O. Loohuis, R. Ophoff, K. Owen, C. Packard, S. Padmanabhan, C. Palmer, G. Pasterkamp, A. Patel, A. Pattie, O. Pedersen, P. Peissig, G. Peloso, C. Pennell, M. Perola, James A. Perry, J. Perry, T. Person, A. Pirie, O. Polašek, D. Posthuma, O. Raitakari, A. Rasheed, R. Rauramaa, Dermot F. Reilly, A. Reiner, F. Renström, P. Ridker, J. Rioux, N. Robertson, A. Robino, O. Rolandsson, I. Rudan, K. Ruth, D. Saleheen, V. Salomaa, N. Samani, Kevin Sandow, Yadav Sapkota, N. Sattar, M. Schmidt, P. Schreiner, M. Schulze, R. Scott, Marcelo P. Segura-Lepe, Svati H. Shah, X. Sim, S. Sivapalaratnam, K. Small, A. Smith, Jennifer A. Smith, L. Southam, T. Spector, Elizabeth K. Speliotes, J. Starr, V. Steinthorsdottir, H. Stringham, M. Stumvoll, P. Surendran, L. Hart, K. Tansey, J. Tardif, K. Taylor, A. Teumer, Deborah J. Thompson, U. Thorsteinsdóttir, B. Thuesen, A. Tönjes, G. Tromp, S. Trompet, E. Tsafantakis, J. Tuomilehto, A. Tybjaerg-hansen, J. Tyrer, R. Uher, A. Uitterlinden, Sheila Ulivi, S. W. van der Laan, Andries R. van der Leij, C. V. van Duijn, N. V. van Schoor, J. van Setten, A. Varbo, T. Varga, R. Varma, D. V. Edwards, S. Vermeulen, H. Vestergaard, V. Vitart, T. Vogt, D. Vozzi, M. Walker, Feijie Wang, Carol A. Wang, Shuai Wang, Yiqin Wang, N. Wareham, H. Warren, J. Wessel, Sara M. Willems, James G. Wilson, D. Witte, M. Woods, Ying Wu, H. Yaghootkar, Jie Yao, P. Yao, L. Yerges-Armstrong, R. Young, E. Zeggini, Xiaowei Zhan, Weihua Zhang, J. Zhao, Wei Zhao, Wei Zhao, He Zheng, W. Zhou, J. Rotter, M. Boehnke, S. Kathiresan, M. McCarthy, C. Willer, K. Stefánsson, I. Borecki, Dajiang J. Liu, K. North, N. Heard-Costa, T. Pers, C. Lindgren, C. Oxvig, Z. Kutalik, F. Rivadeneira, R. Loos, T. Frayling, J. Hirschhorn, P. Deloukas, G. Lettre   +371 more
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Adult Height, Stroke, and Coronary Heart Disease [PDF]

American Journal of Epidemiology, 1998
An inverse relation between adult height and risk of coronary heart disease (CHD) has been reported in many studies, but the association between adult height and stroke remains uncertain. The authors examined the relation between adult height and risk of stroke and CHD in a prospective study of 7,735 men drawn from general medical practices in 24 towns
S G, Wannamethee, A G, Shaper, P H, Whincup, M, Walker   +3 more
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A Critical Appraisal of the Effect of Gonadotropin-Releasing Hormon Analog Treatment on Adult Height of Girls with Central Precocious Puberty

Journal of Clinical Research in Pediatric Endocrinology, 2017
Central precocious puberty (CPP) is a diagnosis that pediatric endocrinologists worldwide increasingly make in girls of age 6-8 years and is mostly idiopathic.
A. Bereket
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Social background, adult body-height and health [PDF]

International Journal of Epidemiology, 1999
To study the socio-demographic determinants of body-height and the bearing of these determinants on the association between body-height and health among Finnish adults.Cross-sectional population survey including questions on social background, body-height and health, and retrospective questions on childhood living conditions.
K, Silventoinen, E, Lahelma, O, Rahkonen
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The validity of the Bayley-Pinneau method in predicting final adult height at the onset of puberty in patients with classic congenital adrenal hyperplasia

Endokrynologia Polska, 2021
INTRODUCTION: The final adult height (FAH) of patients with congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH) is often lower than the predicted adult height (PAH) using the Bayley-Pinneau (B&P) method.
Nora Badawi, Lubna Fawaz, Ahmed Amin, Abdelkarim Kamel, Noha Arafa   +4 more
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Prediction of Adult Height in Turner Syndrome [PDF]

Clinical Pediatric Endocrinology, 1993
Predictions of adult height in girls with Turner Syndrome using established methods, projected height (PROJ), predicted height (PRED), and index of potential height (IPH), were compared to a novel method (KIGS):
D A Price, M B Ranke, K Albertsson-Wikland, L C Karlsson   +3 more
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Predicting the adult height of short children [PDF]

BMJ, 1994
Some recent studies have suggested that treatment with growth hormones can stimulate growth in very short children who do not have growth hormone insufficiency,1but others suggest that growth hormone treatment may modulate normal puberty and shorten the pubertal growth spurt.2It is not known whether growth hormone treatment in children with short ...
B L, Heitmann, T I, Sørensen, N, Keiding, N E, Skakkebaek   +3 more
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Growth Hormone Treatment in Children With Prader-Willi Syndrome: Three Years of Longitudinal Data in Prepubertal Children and Adult Height Data From the KIGS Database

Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism, 2017
Context Longitudinal data of children with Prader-Willi syndrome (PWS) treated with genotropin were registered in the Pfizer International Growth Database (KIGS).
N. Bakker, A. Lindberg, J. Heissler, H. Wollmann, C. Camacho‐Hübner, A. Hokken-Koelega   +5 more
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