...Hester Vlaardingerbroek; Sjoerd D. Joustra; Wilma Oostdijk; Christiaan de Bruin; Jan M. Wit Current clinical guidelines provide information about the diagnostic workup of children with growth failure. This mini-review focuses on the nutritional assessment, which has received relatively little...

...Mary Ellen Vajravelu; Morgan Congdon; Lauren Mitteer; Jamie Koh; Stephanie Givler; Justine Shults; Diva D. De León Feeding problems are frequent in infants with congenital hyperinsulinism (HI) and may be exacerbated by continuous enteral nutrition (EN) used to maintain euglycemia. Our center’s HI...

... factor 1, sex steroids, and thyroid hormone. This review gives an overview of these hormonal regulators of growth and their interplay with nutrition and other key players such as inflammatory cytokines. The size of a newborn child depends on many different factors including genetics, gestational age...

... an additional link between nutrition (mediated by the adipose tissue) and longitudinal growth. GDF-5 is also a target for nutritionally induced microRNAs (miRNAs, see below) [ 115 ] indicating an important role in the nutrition–growth complex. Several interrelated energy-regulatory mechanisms/factors...

... weeks are usually not reported. The basic mechanisms of catch-up growth have been studied in several animal models. During periods of starvation growth hormone (GH) levels increase due to elevated levels of ghrelin [ 16 ]. On the other hand, malnutrition also induces the nutritionally responsive...

... nutritional rickets and osteomalacia, which have a major impact on health, growth, and development of infants, children, and adolescents; the consequences can be lethal or can last into adulthood. The goals of this evidence-based consensus document are to provide health care professionals with guidance...

... (EDNOS) and who were being treated in an ambulatory care unit during nutritional recovery. Body mass index and leptin, luteinizing hormone, estradiol and IGF-1 levels of these patients were evaluated. Blood samples were collected in the 1st (T1), 5th (T2), 10th (T3), 15th (T4) and 20th (T5) weeks...

... infants Growth Insulin Nutrition • In term infants, insulin, and insulin-like growth factor type I (IGF-I) are related to growth and nutrient intake. • In preterm infants, IGF-I and insulin are important growth regulators until 6 months corrected age. • In contrast to term infants, our...

...Ingemar Swenne; Mats Stridsberg; Barbro Thurfjell; Agneta Rosling Aim: Circulating thyroid hormone concentrations are influenced by nonthyroidal disease and changes in nutritional status. We studied thyroid hormones as possible indicators of nutrition in adolescent girls with eating disorders...

... from any ideas, methods, instructions or products referred to in the content or advertisements. Growth hormone Insulin-like growth factor-I HIV Nutrition Thyroid Growth Horm one R e se a rch S e s s io n 3: R ecent A d v a n c e s in Th e rap y Horm Res 1996;46:215-221 Steven Hirschfeld...

...Jean-Marie Ketelslegers; Dominique Maiter; Marc Maes; Louis E. Underwood; Jean-Paul Thissen Both growth hormone (GH) and insulin-like growth factors (IGFs) associate with specific binding proteins. Besides control by hormones, these binding proteins are nutritionally regulated. The GH-binding...

... to persons or property resulting from any ideas, methods, instructions or products referred to in the content or advertisements. Corticosteroid-binding globulin Burn injury Stress Nutrition Fish oil Horm one R e se a rch Horm Res 1996:45:245-251 Dominique R. Garrel Department of Nutrition...

... quiescence. The amplitude and frequency of GH-secretory pulses are regulated by a complex array of external and internal stimuli including age, gender, menstrual cycle phase, pubertal status, nutrition, sleep, body composition and exercise. Changes in plasma concentrations of gonadal hormones, insulin...

...J.M. Tanner The history of the use of children’s growth as a measure of the nutrition and hygiene of a population since the early 19th century is outlined. Secular trends towards greater height and earlier maturity are reported; the increase in adult height in British men born between 1900 and 1946...

.... Rossavik growth function Growth cessation Nutrition Horm Res 1992:38:203-207 IvarK. Rossavika M ark A. Brandenburgb Pankaja S. Venkataramanc Departments of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Pediatrics, and College of Medicine, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center. Oklahoma City, Okla.. USA...

... secretion, they most likely function as the final pathway through which numerous factors influence GH synthesis and secretion. Some of the modulators of GH secretion include neurotransmitters, circulating glucose, insulin-like growth factor I and gonadal steroid concentrations. Age, nutrition and body...

...Mitsunori Murata; Itsuro Hibi Japan has been experiencing ever more rapid socioeconomic development and changes in eating habit, especially in children, since the end of the Second World War. These occurrences (westernized life style) have greatly affected the growth of Japanese. Nutrition...

..., weight of 43.3 kg and BMI of 20.6 [84], Unlike stature, BMI is prob­ ably more nutritionally than genetically related. Evidence 35 ab Age. /ears Fig. 5. Composition of fat-free body by chemical analysis [3] (a) versus body height changes [39] (b). NB = New­ born; Inf = infant. that differences between...

.... Central mechanisms control­ ling pulsatile luteinizing hormone secretion in the nutritionally growth-limited female lamb. Endocrinology i 990; 126:2719-2727. 36 Küderling I. Dorsch G. W amhoff M. Pirke KM: The actions o f prostaglandin Ei. naloxone and testosterone on starvation-induced sup­ pression...

... onset. Horm Res 1991:36:97-103 Metabolic Cues for the Onset of Puberty Judy L. Cameron Departments of Psychiatry, Physiology and Behavioral Neuroscience. University of Pittsburgh, Pa., USA Keywords. Development Metabolic changes Nutrition Onset of puberty Puberty Reproductive axis Timing...