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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 +9 more
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Influences of Socioeconomic Status on Short Stature in Childhood [PDF]
Kosin Medical Journal, 2020 Objectives Short stature in childhood is defined to the cases in which the stature is below 3 percentiles of the standard value in accordance with that of those in the same age and gender group.
Sun Bok Suh, Hyung Su Kim
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Evolutionary conserved networks of human height identify multiple Mendelian causes of short stature [PDF]
, 2019 Height is a heritable and highly heterogeneous trait. Short stature affects 3% of the population and in most cases is genetic in origin. After excluding known causes, 67% of affected individuals remain without diagnosis. To identify novel candidate genes
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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 +6 more
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Elasticity of strongly stretched ssDNA [PDF]
, 2007 We present a simple model which describes elastic response of single-stranded DNA (ssDNA) to stretching, including the regime of very high force (up to 1000 pN). ssDNA is modelled as a discreet persistent chain, whose ground state is a zigzag rather than a straight line configuration.
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Enhancer deletions of the SHOX gene as a frequent cause of short stature: the essential role of a 250 kb downstream regulatory domain [PDF]
, 2009 International audienceMutations and deletions of the homeobox transcription factor gene are known to cause short stature. We have analyzed SHOX enhancer regions in a large cohort of short stature patients to study the importance of regulatory regions in ...
Blum, W F +8 more
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Journal of Physiological Anthropology, 2021 Background Recently, short stature has been revealed to be positively associated with hypertension, possibly because this indicates lower activity of vascular maintenance, such as angiogenesis.
Yuji Shimizu +10 more
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Indian Journal of Health Sciences and Biomedical Research KLEU, 2022 OBJECTIVE: To study the etiological and clinical profile of children presenting with short stature and to assess growth velocity in children after 6 months of treatment.
Vijay Sheker Reddy Danda +5 more
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Analysis of A Case of Growth Retardation of Infants Caused By Maternal Medication During Lactation [PDF]
BIO Web of ConferencesShort 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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Isolated short stature as a presentation of celiac disease in Saudi children [PDF]
, 2010 The aim of this study is to assess the prevalence of isolated short stature as a clinical presentation of celiac disease in Saudi Arab children and whether some of the routine laboratory tests performed to determine the cause of short stature could ...
Assiri, Asaad Mohamed Abdullah
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