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Assessment of Child Anthropometry in a Large Epidemiologic Study
Published on: February 2, 2017
To be or not to be "TALL"?
1Endocrinology & Diabetes Research Unit, WHO Collaborative Center for Diabetes in Youth, Schneider Children's Medical Center, Petach Tikva, Israel. laronz@clalit.org.il
Abstract:
Constitutional tall stature can be anticipated from neonatal length (1) and measurement at age 4 and 8 years (2). Mainly of genetic origin (3) it has been shown that tall children and parents have high normal or higher than normal serum hGH and/or IGF-I levels. (4-6). Also in a healthy adult population a significant (p<0.005) association between height and serum IGF-I has been reported (7). These within normal variations in "healthy" individuals should be distinguished from "gigantism" due to excessive GHR-H or hGH secretion (8, 9) and other pathological conditions leading to tall stature (3).
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