Study | Age of children (years) | No. children screened | No. of new cases (yield per 1000) | ||||
Growth hormone deficiency | Turner syndrome | Juvenile hypothyroidism | Psychosocial short stature | All conditions | |||
Agwu 200428 | 4–5 | 3474 | 2 (0.58) | 1 (0.29) | 1 (0.29) | 4 (1.15) | |
Ahmed 199530 | 3, 4.5 | 20 338 | 1 (0.05) | 1 (0.05) | 11 (0.54) | ||
Aszkenasy 200534 | 4–5 | 9338 | |||||
Banerjee 200318 | 6 | 1592 | |||||
Cernerud 199436 | 10, 14 | 7129 | |||||
de la Puente 199929 | 5–8 | 2084 | 2 (0.96) | ||||
Hearn 199537 | 5, 11 | 9549 | 2 (0.21) | 2 (0.21) | 11 (1.15) | ||
Keller 200238 | 0–19 | 60 984 | 38 (0.62) | 4 (0.07) | 2 (0.03) | 3 (0.05) | 112 (1.84) |
Lacey 197435 | 10 | 2256 | 1 (0.44) | 1 (0.44) | 4 (1.77) | ||
Lindsay 199431 | 5–11 | 114 881 | 16 (0.14) | 6 (0.05) | 3 (0.03) | 25 (0.22) | |
Vimpani 198133 | 6–9 | 48 221 | 9 (0.19) | 1 (0.02) | 1 (0.02) | 11 (0.23) | |
Voss 199232 | 5 | 14 346 | 1 (0.07) | 1 (0.07) | 8 (0.56) | ||
Range of yield per 1000 | 0–0.62 | 0–0.07 | 0–0.29 | 0–0.44 | 0–1.84 | ||
Population prevalence per 1000 | 0.25* | 0.2† | 0.69‡ | ?§ | ?§ |
*1 in 4000 UK 9 year olds. †1 in 2500 live female births. ‡1 in 1450 people under the age of 22 in UK. §Unknown.