... of a female child born premature with a birth weight of 1.1 kg who presented with extreme failure to thrive, persistent hypoglycaemia, paucity of fat in the adipose tissue with increased brown fat and increased resting energy expenditure. Results: Complete cessation of weight and height was noted between 3...

...Leena Patel; Sudha Rao Chandrashekhar; Isla Gemmell; Elaine O’Shea; Julie Jones; Indraneel Banerjee; Rakesh Amin; Peter Clayton Aim: To evaluate longitudinal growth in 21-hydroxylase deficiency congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH), factors contributing to this and outcome for BMI, weight (Wt...

.... Sick neonates are often considered unsuitable for anthropometry and growth is wrongly equated with weight gain. Gain in length may be disturbed by poor health and permanent extrauterine growth retardation and changes in body proportions induced in some survivors of neonatal intensive care. Drug...

..., validity and usefulness are compared among anthropometric methods and weighted against other techniques used in children. Recent recommendations of a number of expert committees are discussed. 6 1 2009 © 1997 S. Karger AG, Basel 1997 Copyright / Drug Dosage / Disclaimer Copyright: All...

.... Prepubertal, pubertal and postpubertal samples of 17 patients (9 girls, 8 boys) with type-I diabetes mellitus developing obesity were compared to those of 17 normal-weight controls matched for gender, age and diabetes duration. Six obese and six normal-weight girls with Turner syndrome were studied without...

... by a slower increase during childhood and puberty. No difference was found between male and female subjects. Apart from age, standardized weight (SDS = z score) had a major positive effect on GHBP concentration. Interestingly, SDS height correlated negatively with GHBP when weight and age were controlled...

... Ovary Type 1 diabetes mellitus Growth Weight Polycystic ovarian syndrome Major advances in the treatment of type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1D) children and adolescents have occurred during the last few years. Severe forms of growth and pubertal delay are now rare, but some degrees of delay...

...(s) disclaim responsibility for any injury to persons or property resulting from any ideas, methods, instructions or products referred to in the content or advertisements. Type 2 diabetes mellitus Obesity Body mass index Weight Lifestyle Genetics Children Adolescents Ethnicity 17...

.... In addition, the question of secular trends in a given population and the rate at which childhood obesity is increasing in industrialized countries make it mandatory to establish a time-adapted system to develop percentiles for body height, weight and body mass index (BMI) and also to develop a screening...

..., instructions or products referred to in the content or advertisements. Caloric intake Children Malignancy Metabolic rate Physical activity Weight In 1985, Sainsbury et al. [ 1 ]were the first to draw attention to the fact that an excessive gain in weight commonly occurs in patients who were...

... criteria for this study were (1) biochemically documented GHD; (2) at least 2 years of uninterrupted GH therapy; (3) available measurements of weight and height at start of therapy, and (4) no previous GH therapy. Excluded from the study were patients in whom short stature was partly due to another cause...