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DOI: 10.1590/S0004-27302005000400010
OBJETIVE: The first Brazilian study aimed to evaluate body proportions in patients with Turner Syndrome (TS) with no growth hormone treatment. METHODS: A cross-sectional study with 50 TS patients (5 to 43 years) evaluating age, karyotype, pubertal development, height, sitting height, arm span, weight, BMI, head circumference, length of hand, foot and leg, waist to hip ratio, biacromial and biiliac diameters. The data were transformed in score z. A descriptive analysis was done and Mann-Whitney test and analysis of variance […]
Keywords: Arm span; Body proportion; height; Turner syndrome