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Pubertal Height Growth and Adult Height in Cystic Fibrosis After Newborn Screening
... and adult height, including 1 child who did not experience apparent PHV; children with pancreatic sufficiency ( n = 18) achieved the best growth (normal PHV and adult ...better adult ...
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Adult height and risk of 50 diseases: a combined epidemiological and genetic analysis
... between height and risk of hip fracture ...that height is positively associated with hip axis length [47], which has been reported as a risk factor of hip fracture ...between height and risks of ...
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Growth hormone significantly increases the adult height of children with idiopathic short stature: comparison of subgroups and benefit
... Target height (MPH) was calculated from the self- reported parental heights by the method of Tanner: (height of the father + height of the mother + 13)/2 for the males and (height of the ...
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Effect of oxandrolone therapy on adult height in Turner syndrome patients treated with growth hormone: a meta-analysis
... [33]. At 12–13 years of age all the patients were started on estrogen (except those that progressed spontaneously into puberty). A second study was a prospective RCT in which patients who were on GH were placed on ...
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Adult Height in Growth Hormone Deficiency: Historical Perspective and Examples From the National Cooperative Growth Study
... define adult height affected the apparent ...before adult height could be considered to have been attained reduced the proportion of those who later grew > 5 cm to <10%, but also ...
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Variation in Methods of Predicting Adult Height for Children With Idiopathic Short Stature
... as height before treatment ...dicted adult height is not part of the FDA criteria for using GH to treat chil- dren with ISS, the FDA criteria do in- clude a statement regarding “a growth rate that is ...
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Increased height standard deviation scores in response to growth hormone therapy to near-adult height in older children with delayed skeletal maturation: results from the ANSWER Program
... overall adult height achievable by all patients treated with ...greater height gain [12,13], reinforcing the importance of early referral for GHT in appropriate patients when growth failure or short ...
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Final adult height of patients with childhood-onset systemic lupus erythematosus: a cross sectional analysis
... status or financial status. Since we lack information on cumulative steroid exposure or steroid dosing during childhood, the present study cannot assess whether the effect of steroids on the final height is ...
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Clinical Features Affecting Final Adult Height in Patients With Pediatric-Onset Crohn's Disease
... final height, that is, interval from onset of symptoms to diagnosis, prepubertal onset of symptoms, gender, jejunal disease present at diagnosis, systemic steroid therapy, intestinal surgery, and midparental ...
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Impact of Growth Hormone Therapy on Adult Height of Children Born Small for Gestational Age
... of adult height was per- ...initial height less than ⫺ 2 SDS, and GH dose range of 33 to 67 g/kg per ...day. Adult height SDS and overall height gain SDS were the primary ...
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Constitutional Delay of Growth: Expected versus Final Adult Height
... Constitutional Delay of Growth: Expected versus Final Adult Height. http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/87/1/82[r] ...
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Adult Height, Insulin Levels and 17β-Estradiol in Young Women
... between adult height, insulin levels and premenopausal estradiol level throughout an entire menstrual ...of adult height and insulin levels may interact, and influence levels of 17 β- ...
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A mathematical model for predicting the adult height of girls with advanced puberty after spontaneous growth
... (reported), height chart, growth rate, weight, pubertal stage, BA, and the height of each parent (reported), as well as the age of the mother at her first ...age: height at age 4 yr, height at ...
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Relationship between adult height and body weight and risk of carotid atherosclerosis assessed in terms of carotid intima-media thickness: The Nagasaki Islands study
... tween height and atherosclerosis assessed in terms of CIMT, may be strongly affected by BMI ...between height and carotid atherosclerosis assessed in terms of CIMT and in relation to ...that height ...
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Growth Hormone Therapy for Children Born Small for Gestational Age: Height Gain Is Less Dose Dependent Over the Long Term Than Over the Short Term
... in adult height was analyzed with multivariate linear regression ...and height SD at the start of the study as a ...in adult height but they showed no detectable effect in this ...
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Growth, Puberty, and Endocrine Functions in Patients With Sporadic or Familial Neurofibromatosis Type 1: A Longitudinal Study
... frequency that is fourfold higher than the frequency of the normal population and is linked with the presence of CNS tumors. We recommend immediate CNS reinvestigation as precocious puberty or tall stature develops. The ...
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Childhood body size and pubertal timing in relation to adult mammographic density phenotype
... Our study has the strength that subjects were selected from a prospective study with comprehensive informa- tion on breast cancer risk factors. A limitation is that the pubertal and weight variables that we collected ...
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The Use of Tamoxifen to Improve Height Potential in Short Pubertal Boys
... It is important to recognize that 6 of the 7 patients in this study were also on growth hormone therapy, yet the average growth velocity was low for pubertal boys. Whether tamoxifen attenuated the growth rate in our ...
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Growth Hormone Treatment of Girls With Turner Syndrome: The National Cooperative Growth Study Experience
... TS-specific height SDS shows much variability, the increase in height SDS observed with increasing duration of GH treatment, overall, is highly ...on adult height in patients with ...in ...
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Cross-Sectional Analysis Investigating the Concordance of Maturity Status Classifications in Elite Caucasian Youth Tennis Players
... Corresponding analyses for players in more narrowly defined CA groups may be of interest to those working in youth tennis, where players are generally categorized into age groups. Results are summarized in Additional ...
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