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IGF-1 DEFICIENCY (SHORT STATURE)

Pakistan Armed Forces Medical Journal, 2013
Growth represents a sentinel for the general health of a child. One of the uncommon yet treatable causes of short for age child is insulin like growth factor 1 deficiency. We report one such cases. The case is an 18 months old girl of Rawalpindi brought
Adnan Halim, Salman Ali
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PSYNDEX Tests Review für QoLISSY - Quality of Life in Short Stature Youth Questionnaire - deutsche Fassung

, 2015
This is a PSYNDEX Tests Review of QoLISSY - Quality of Life in Short Stature Youth Questionnaire - deutsche Fassung. PSYNDEX Tests Reviews are written in German and describe and evaluate psychological and educational tests used in the German-speaking ...
Gorges, Johannes F.
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Etiological factors of short stature in children and adolescents: experience at a tertiary care hospital in Egypt

Therapeutic Advances in Endocrinology and Metabolism, 2017
Background: Accurate anthropometric measurements and critical analysis of growth data allow the clinician to promptly recognize children with short stature. The aim of this study was to determine the frequency of etiological factors causing short stature
Almontaser Hussein, Hekma Farghaly, Eman Askar, Kotb Metwalley, Khaled Saad, Asmaa Zahran, Hisham A. Othman   +6 more
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Approach to A Child with Short Stature

Apollo Medicine, 2007
PEDIATRICS is the science of the growing child, and it therefore is essential for every paediatrician to monitor and chart the growth of each child who is under one’s regular follow-up. Why? Because if the height gain is too slow, or too fast, and similarly if the weight gain is too slow or too fast, it can alert us to take action early.
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The Etiological Spectrum OF Short Stature among Children Attending Endocrine Clinic at Tertiary Care Hospital [PDF]

Liaquat National Journal of Primary Care
Background: One of the most frequent reasons for referral to pediatric endocrinology units is short stature. Children’s short height has a complicated etiology that includes genetics, race, gender, nutrition, and several endocrine hormones.
Hira Urooj Iqbal, Mohsina Ibrahim, Kulsoom Shabbir, Zara Shaukat   +3 more
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Spatial and demographic disparities in short stature among school children aged 7–18 years: a nation-wide survey in China, 2014

BMJ Open, 2019
Objectives To identify spatial disparities and demographic characteristics of short stature, we analysed the prevalence of short stature collected in a nationwide health survey.Settings Data were obtained from the 2014 Chinese National Survey on Students
Jun Ma, Yanhui Dong, Zhaogeng Yang, Jia Ma, Tao Pei, Fen Dong, Sihui Guo, Qiuling Zhao, Shunan Wang, Zhixin Zhang   +9 more
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Short stature and Helicobacter pylori infection in Italian children: prospective multicentre hospital based case–control study. (I.F. 5.143)

, 1998
Helicobacter pylori is mainly acquired in childhood,1 but the diseases associated with such infection remain unknown. Scottish and Italian schoolchildren infected with H pylori showed reduced growth in height,2,3 and H pylori gastritis was found in 55 ...
E. Chiorboli, G. Bona, DE ANGELIS, Gian Luigi, on behalf of the Italian Study Group on Short Stature end H. Pylori, C. Saieva, D. Palli, G. Oderda   +6 more
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War and Stature: Growing Up During the Nigerian Civil War [PDF]

The Nigerian civil war of 1967-70 was precipitated by secession of the Igbo-dominated south-eastern region to create the state of Biafra. It was the first civil war in Africa, the predecessor of many.
Akresh, Richard, Osili, Una Okonkwo, Bhalotra, Sonia R., Leone, Marinella   +3 more
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Analysis of A Case of Growth Retardation of Infants Caused By Maternal Medication During Lactation [PDF]

BIO Web of Conferences
Short stature in childhood and even adulthood mostly originates from infancy and young children. It has been reported that 30.7% of children start to experience short stature before 6 months of age, 32.3% of children start to experience short stature ...
Zhang Junhua
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Managing idiopathic short stature: role of somatropin (rDNA origin) for injection

, 2010
J Paul Frindik1, Stephen F Kemp11University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences and Arkansas Children’s Hospital, AR, USAAbstract: Idiopathic short stature (ISS) is a term that describes short stature in children who do not have growth hormone (GH)
J Paul Frindik, Stephen F Kemp
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