Aim: To determine whether children with psychosocial short stature attain their genetic
height potential. Methods: We report on 18 children (10 girls, 8 boys) diagnosed by a …

This paper is a review of studies investigating adult height achieved by patients with
idiopathic short stature. In all of these studies, final height SDS was increased compared …

We describe change in height, segmental proportion and weight in 46 children (19 girls, 27
boys, all but four prepubertal) diagnosed by a multidisciplinary team as having psychosocial …

Background To evaluate the efficacy of GH in improving FAH in ISS children in a multicenter
study. Methods A real-world observation was carried out. Children with ISS in seven …

Short stature (SS) is conventionally defined as height 2 standard deviations
(SDs)(approximately the second percentile) or more below the mean for age-and gender …

Background. Changes in the diagnosis of endocrine-based growth disorders and the advent
of biosynthetic growth hormone have altered the long-standing policy of treating only those …

Objective To review the available evidence on the association between primary short stature
and intellectual and physical dysfunction among children. Methods Systematic searches …

Clinicians have focused traditionally on the physical wellbeing of their patients, opting for
measures that are easily quantifiable. Increasingly, however, they have become aware of …

Introduction 'Health for all children'recommends that children should be screened for growth
disorders at school entry with a 0.4 th centile 'cut‐off'. Following the diagnosis of growth …

Idiopathic short stature (ISS)–in this case asymptomatic short stature, a subset of ISS–is not
a disease, but a physiological variant. Short stature itself is defined as height more than 2 …