ABSTRACT Objective: To evaluate adult height and identify the factors contributing to its achievement in patients born small for gestational age (SGA) treated with recombinant human growth hormone (rhGH). Subjects and methods: This retrospective study includes data of SGA children treated at a pediatric endocrinology center. Inclusion criteria were SGA birth (birth length and/or weight < -1.28 standard deviation score (SDS), absence of catch-up growth by the age of four years, rhGH treatment for more than 12 months, and recorded […]

OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to identify factors that might interfere with reaching the final height in patients with 21-hydroxylase deficiency (21-OHD). SUBJECTS AND METHODS: Thirty-one patients with classical 21-OHD who reached their FH in our Institution were eva

The purpose of this paper was to assess post-menarcheal growth in a cohort of Brazilian girls and correlate it with the age, stature and BMI at menarche. Records of the age, weight, and stature at menarche, and 5 years later, of 111 girls who attended the Adolescent Unit of the Child Institute – HC – Medical School of the University of São Paulo, were recovered. The median age at menarche was 12.67 years and the mean increase in height was […]