It has been known since the late 1950s that GH isolated from the pituitaries of humans and
anthropoid apes was capable of stimulating growth in children with deficient GH secretion (l …

Comments on a therapeutic misadventure involving the transmission of Creutzfeldt-Jakob
disease (CJD) to hypopituitary children by contaminated growth hormone. Fatality of the …

The spontaneous growth of 386 patients (163 girls and 223 boys) with Silver-Russell
syndrome (SRS) was analysed in a mixed longitudinal and cross-sectional manner. One …

Objective: To identify predictors of postnatal catch-up growth from birth to two years and its
relation to size and obesity at five years. Design: Regional prospective cohort study. Setting …

Reference curves for stature and weight in British children have been available for the past
30 years, and have recently been updated. However weight by itself is a poor indicator of …

To update the British growth reference, anthropometric data for weight, height, body mass
index (weight/height) and head circumference from 17 distinct surveys representative of …

The current reference curves of stature and weight for the UK were first published in 1966
and have been used ever since despite increasing concern that they may not adequately …

There is remarkably wide variation in rates of infancy growth, however, its regulation is not
well understood. We examined the relationship between maternal smoking, parity, and …

A growth chart for girls with Turner syndrome has been prepared using data from four
published series of European patients, and evaluated using retrospective data on the …

A new family of mathematical functions to fit longitudinal growth data is described. All
members derive from the differential equation dh/dt= s (t).(h 1− h) where h 1 is adult size and …