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	eMedicine - Short Stature : Article by Robert J Ferry, Jr
		Short stature and constitutional growth delay are diagnoses of exclusion.
		Short stature may be the harbinger of an occult chronic disease of childhood.
		Normal variant short stature may be associated with a bone mineral density that is lower than in the remainder of the (taller) population.
	www.emedicine.com /ped/topic2087.htm (4953 words)

	sBMJ \| Evaluation of short stature
		Short stature is the commonest reason for a child to be seen by a paediatric endocrinologist.
		Short stature is also commonly associated with renal disease, and conditions associated with hypoxia or hypoxaemia, such as congenital heart disease, pulmonary disease, and haemoglobinopathies.
		Short stature is the most consistent finding in girls with Turner's syndrome, and skeletal age in these patients is delayed only minimally during childhood, although the delay is greater in adolescence.
	www.studentbmj.com /issues/00/05/education/143.php (2208 words)

	Short stature - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Shortness is a vague term without a precise definition and with significant relativity to context.
		Shortness in children and young adults nearly always results from below-average growth in childhood, while shortness in older adults usually results from loss of height due to kyphosis of the spine or collapsed vertebrae from osteoporosis.
		From a medical perspective, severe shortness can be a variation of normal, resulting from the interplay of multiple familial genes.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Short_stature (227 words)

	Short Stature - Health Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Short stature refers to any person who is significantly below the average height for a person of the same age and sex -- specifically, the shortest 3 - 5% of the population.
		Short stature is not necessarily a symptom or sign of a health problem.
		If the short stature appears to run in the family or is due to delayed growth, a bone age x-ray will be done.
	www.nbc5i.com /encyclopedia/6864225/detail.html (761 words)

	Short Stature - (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Short stature is simply a descriptive term indicating that a child's height is less than expected for his/her age.
		Short stature does require evaluation by the pediatrician or family practitioner, and in some cases even a pediatric endocrinologist (a specialist that deals with glandular disorders in children).
		Turner's syndrome: In girls with short stature, a genetic test called a karyotype (a special blood test which looks at the number, shape, and size of a person's chromosomes) should be done to determine whether their short stature is the result of Turner's syndrome.
	library.adoption.com /Health/Short-Stature/article/2640/1.html (2756 words)

	eMedicine - Short Stature : Article Excerpt by Robert J Ferry, Jr
		Short stature, optimally defined relative to the genetic endowment of the individual, is recognized by comparing an individual child’s height with that of a large population of a similar genetic background and, more particularly, using the mid-parental target height (see History).
		The hallmarks of familial short stature (also referred to as genetic short stature) include bone age appropriate for chronologic age, normal growth velocity, and predicted adult height appropriate to the familial pattern (using the Bayley-Pinneau or Tanner-Goldstein-Whitehouse tables).
		Short stature can also be the sign of a wide variety of pathologic conditions or inherited disorders when it results from GF or premature closure of the epiphysial growth plates.
	www.emedicine.com /ped/byname/short-stature.htm (889 words)

	Case Based Pediatrics Chapter
		Growth hormone deficiency is a pathologic cause of short stature that should be suspected in a boy with micropenis or any child with a midline abnormality (e.g., cleft palate, septo-optic dysplasia, or holoprosencephaly).
		In familial short stature, the patient's chronologic age and bone age are equivalent and both are older than the patient's height age.
		Short stature alone is not sufficient criteria to begin a child on growth hormone, as it is not only expensive and not without serious potential side effects, but also there may be no ultimate height benefit.
	www.hawaii.edu /medicine/pediatrics/pedtext/s15c03.html (2059 words)

	Lengthening for Constitutional Short Stature
		Lengthening for stature in normally proportioned individuals with short stature but without dysplasia (dwarfism) requires a different strategy for lengthening than in patients with disproportion and dysplasia.
		Short stature below 3 standard deviations from the mean in individuals without a medical condition such as dwarfism, growth hormone deficiency etc., is considered constitutional short stature.
		Lengthening for stature may be reimbursable by insurance in some cases, especially if there is any evidence of a hormonal or hormone treated related basis for the short stature or associated deformity.
	www.limblengthening.com /news/stature.html (1520 words)

	Short Stature in Children: Keep Kids Healthy Conditions
		Among the tests that are commonly performed to evaluate the growth of a child with short stature include determining a bone age, which is the chronological age of your child's bones.
		While children with familial short stature may be at or near or just below the 3rd or 5th percentile on their growth chart for their height, their growth curve or channel will run parallel to the normal growth curves and they have a normal rate of growth.
		Most children with short stature, if they have a normal rate of growth and are otherwise growing and developing normally, do not have a medical condition that is causing them to be short.
	www.keepkidshealthy.com /welcome/conditions/short_stature.html (1442 words)

	Children's Health Short Stature... - Hair Loss Advisor
		Short stature is simply a descriptive term indicating that a child’s height is less than expected for his/her age.
		Short stature does require evaluation by the pediatrician or family practitioner, and in some cases even a pediatric endocrinologist (a specialist that deals with glandular disorders in children).
		When a child is first diagnosed with short stature, it only means that she is shorter than the average child in her age group.
	www.hairlossadvisor.com /hairlossadvisor/11506.htm (2582 words)

	Frequently asked questions about childhood growth, height \| Growth Center (Diagnostic and Research) - Children's ...
		Short stature compares an individual’s height to a reference group, while growth failure refers to abnormally slow growth that will not reach the genetically expected adult height.
		For example, a child may have short stature (e.g., height 5th percentile of other children his/her age and gender) without growth failure (i.e., if his/her parents are also 5th percentile).
		The FDA approved growth hormone therapy for children with idiopathic short stature; the height cut-off is the bottom 1 percentile for age.
	www.chop.edu /consumer/jsp/division/generic.jsp?id=79213 (1218 words)

	Short stature Medical Information
		Short stature refers to any person who is significantly below the average height for a person of the same age and sex -- specifically, the shortest 3 - 5% of the population.
		Short stature is not necessarily a symptom or sign of a health problem.
		If the short stature appears to run in the family or is due to delayed growth, a bone age x-ray will be done.
	www.drugs.com /enc/short_stature.html (692 words)

	Dr. Koop - Short stature
		Short stature is refers to any person who is significantly below the average height for a person of the same age and sex -- specifically, the shortest 5% of the population.
		Short stature is not necessarily a symptom or sign.
		On the other hand, short stature may be a symptom caused by a medical condition and, as many of these conditions are treatable, should be evaluated by a health care provider.
	www.drkoop.com /ency/1/003271.html (294 words)

	Short Stature - Children's Health News Story - KITV Honolulu (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Short stature refers to any person who is significantly below the average height for a person of the same age and sex -- specifically, the shortest 3 - 5% of the population.
		Short stature is not necessarily a symptom or sign of a health problem.
		If the short stature appears to run in the family or is due to delayed growth, a bone age x-ray will be done.
	www.thehawaiichannel.com /kidshealth/6864225/detail.html (766 words)

	Approach to a child with short stature Pediatric Oncall (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Short stature may sometimes be the only obvious manifestation of endocrine conditions and systemic diseases.
		Retardation of growth velocity is the hallmark of postnatal pathologic short stature.
		Children with short stature can have psychological stress due to negative comments from relatives, peers at school etc. The parents must be advised to bring out positive aspects of child’s personality and not to over emphasize the abnormalities of stature.
	www.pediatriconcall.com /fordoctor/DiseasesandCondition/approach_to_shortstature.asp (1113 words)

	Dwarfism - Definition, Description, Demographics, Causes and symptoms, Diagnosis, Treatment, Prognosis, Prevention
		While dwarfism is sometimes used to describe achondroplasia, a condition characterized by short stature and disproportionately short arms and legs, it is also used more broadly to refer to a variety of conditions resulting in unusually short stature in both children and adults.
		Short stature may be unaccompanied by other symptoms, or it may occur together with other problems, both physical and mental.
		Short stature can also result from a variety of conditions related to inadequate nutrition, including malabsorption syndromes (in which the body is lacking a substance—often an enzyme—necessary for proper absorption of an important nutrient), chronic inflammatory bowel disorders, caloric deficiencies, and zinc deficiency.
	www.healthofchildren.com /D/Dwarfism.html (1886 words)

	Short Stature - Swedish MC, Seattle, Washington, WA
		The term short stature describes height that is in the third percentile as compared to that of the average height for a person's age, sex, and racial group.
		Short stature is generally broken down into three subgroups: familial short stature, constitutional delay and development, and that caused by chronic disease.
		Short stature cannot be prevented in children who have a familial short stature or those who have a chronic disease.
	www.swedish.org /113197.cfm (780 words)

	Medical Library Search
		Short stature is also a statistical term, generally referring to people who are shorter than 97 percent of their age and sex matched peers.
		Short stature may occur as a result of genetic disorders that affect the growth of the skeleton.
		Many other children who are short for their age will be normal in height as adults and have no disorder other than some delay in the timing of their growth.
	www.medem.com /search/article_display.cfm?path=n:&mstr=/ZZZSDETXCLC.html&soc=TheHormoneFoundation-TheEndocrineSociety&srch_typ=NAV_SERCH (765 words)

	FoxNews Children's Health Focus -- Short Stature
		What does your pediatrician mean when she says "short stature?" It isimportant to understand that short stature is not a specific diagnosis.Nor is it a definite indication that something is wrong with your child.Short stature is simply a descriptive term indicating that a child’s heightis less than expected for his/her age.
		When a child is first diagnosed with short stature, it only means thatshe is shorter than the average child in her age group.
		The expectationin familial short stature is that children will ultimately grow to a heightsimilar to that of their parents.
	www.shortsupport.org /News/0171.html (2315 words)

	What Is a Growth Disorder?
		With both constitutional growth delay and familial short stature, children and families need to be reassured that the child does not have a disease or medical condition that poses a threat to health or that requires treatment.
		However, because they may be short or may not enter puberty when their classmates do, some kids with these growth patterns may need extra help coping with teasing by their peers, or they may need reassurance that they will go through full sexual development eventually.
		In addition to short stature, girls with Turner syndrome usually don't undergo normal sexual development because their ovaries (the sex organs that produce eggs and female hormones) fail to mature and function normally.
	www.kidshealth.org /parent/medical/endocrine/growth_disorder.html (1381 words)

	Short Stature: Problems in Adolescents: Merck Manual Home Edition
		Short stature is height below normal for the child's age (according to standard charts for age and height).
		Most short children, however, have normally functioning pituitary glands and are short because their growth spurt is late or their parents are relatively short.
		Some parents feel that short stature is a disorder, but most doctors do not approve of the use of growth hormone in these children.
	www.merck.com /mmhe/sec23/ch271/ch271c.html (221 words)

	Idiopatic Short Stature
		Therefore, idiopathic short stature is the term for children with short statures caused by something doctors have not yet determined.
		Children diagnosed with idiopathic short stature are in the lowest three percent in height of other children of the same age.
		If a child should be genetically taller, and there is no known cause for their short stature, doctors may recommend that the child receive human growth hormone treatment.
	www.somatropin.net /idiopaticshortstature.htm (452 words)

	Genentech: Products - Product Information - Nutropin
		Turner syndrome is a chromosomal disorder that affects females exclusively and is characterized, in part, by short stature and ovarian dysfunction.
		Idiopathic short status (ISS), also called non-growth hormone-deficient short stature, is a condition caused by unknown reasons after a thorough diagnostic evaluation by an endocrine specialist.
		In subjects treated in a long-term study of Nutropin for idiopathic short stature, mean fasting and postprandial insulin levels increased, while mean fasting and postprandial glucose levels remained unchanged.
	www.gene.com /gene/products/information/opportunistic/nutropin (838 words)

	Short Stature (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The term short stature describes height that is in the third percentile as compared to that of the average height for a person's age, sex, and racial group.
		Short stature is generally broken down into three subgroups: familial short stature, constitutional delay and development, and that caused by chronic disease.
		Short stature cannot be prevented in children who have a familial short stature or those who have a chronic disease.
	www.upmc.com /HealthManagement/ManagingYourHealth/HealthReference/Diseases/?chunkiid=100270 (755 words)

	Growth Delay - Short Stature - Dwarfism (IBIS Birth Defects Factsheet)
		Short stature may be a symptom caused by a medical condition and, as many of these conditions are treatable, should be evaluated by a health care provider.
		The National Institutes of Health is conducting a study for children with extreme short stature who do not have growth hormone deficiency...
		Use of the word "midget" to describe someone of short stature is considered extremely offensive by some people.
	ibis-birthdefects.org /start/shortsta.htm (1354 words)

	Dwarfism
		Being of short stature is only one of the characteristics that make a little person who he or she is. If you're the parent or loved one of a little person, you know this to be true.
		Generally, when average-size parents have a child with short stature due to a spontaneous mutation, it is rare to have a second child who is also of short stature.
		Short stature is the one quality all people with dwarfism have in common.
	kidshealth.org /parent/growth/growth/dwarfism.html (1643 words)

	Criteria for Determining Disability in Infants and Children: Short Stature. Summary of Evidence Report/Technology ...
		These specific causes of short stature were chosen because they allowed us to isolate the effect of short stature and thus enable us to determine if there was an increased risk for disability related problems just due to short stature.
		In each of these categories, children with short stature either had testing that was not significantly different from the controls or from the population mean, or if the testing were significantly poorer it was still for the most part within one standard deviation (SD) of the population mean.
		Further studies are needed that evaluate large groups of non-selected short stature children, use the same behavior-based test, compare results to matched controls, and determine likelihood of disability.
	www.ahcpr.gov /clinic/epcsums/shortsum.htm (5236 words)

	DigitalCommons@Pace \| The effect of short stature on parental achievement expectations and attitudes
		An Analysis of Variance for the main effects of stature (short, normal) and spouse (husband, wife) was not significant and did not support the original hypothesis of diminished parental achievement expectations towards short stature children.
		Short stature may exacerbate parental anxiety about greater vulnerability to physical injury in mechanical areas while artistic achievement behaviors may provoke anxiety associated with the development of more feminine behaviors in males.
		Suggestions for future research include examining fathers' perceptions of short stature sons' capabilities in mechanical and physical activities which fathers may view as potentially injurious to this child.
	digitalcommons.pace.edu /dissertations/AAI9029393 (325 words)

	magic foundation : Idiopathic Short Stature
		Many causes of short stature have been discovered over the past few years, but there are still factors that are not yet understood.
		Idiopathic Short Stature is defined as having a height significantly shorter than the normal population (i.e., shorter than 1.2% of the population of the same age and gender), a poor adult height prediction (generally defined as less than 5’4” for males and less than 4’11” for feamles), and no detectable cause for the short stature.
		The work-up for a diagnosis of Idiopathic Short Stature, although a simple diagnosis, may require a series of blood and/or other tests to be done to rule out various medical conditions that are known to affect height.
	www.magicfoundation.org /www/docs/11.1404 (529 words)

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