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Letter
Community growth monitoring in practice
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The aim of routine growth monitoring (GM) of school age children is to identify children with the so-called “silent” conditions. These include growth hormone deficiency, hypothyroidism, and Turner’s syndrome. Using the UK 1990 nine centile growth charts it has been recommended that all children with heights less than the 0.4th centile should be referred to growth clinics for further assessment.1 We evaluated a district GM programme fulfilling this criterion, to assess its outcome. …