SHORT STATURE ETIOLOGICAL PROFILE AND ITS CORRELATION TO FSS AND CGD IN BOTH MALE AND FEMALE: A CROSS-SECTIONAL RESEARCH
| Main Author: | Dr. Faryal Naveed Ahmed, Dr. Asma Yasin, Dr. Aatiqa Irshad |
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| Format: | Article |
| Bahasa: | eng |
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, 2018
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| Online Access: |
https://zenodo.org/record/1420171 |
Daftar Isi:
- Objective: We aimed to determine etiological factors frequency in the patients having short stature. Methods: Sample size of this research was 100 children studied at Mayo Hospital, Lahore (February 2016 to March 2017). Design of the research was cross-sectional descriptive. Forty-eight boys and fifty-two girls were selected in the research sample in the age bracket of 3 – 15 years with a mean age of (9.9 ± 3.4). All the children were reported for their short stature. Results: Most common reasons for short stature were FSS and CGD which were reported in fifty-five percent of the total sample. Seventeen children were detected for non-endocrinal reasons considered as a single entity. Repeated etiological factors were FSS, CGD, GHD, Hypothyroidism and Celiac disease. Endocrinal causes and GHD cases were respectively 44% and 13%. Boys were dominant than girls with a proportion of 2.7 to 1 (P-value under 0.05). Conclusion: Normal growth variants were considered as the most repeated cause short stature. Pathological reasons were more likely to be associated with the children having a height less than 0.4th percentile. Keywords: FSS (Familial Short Stature), CGD (Constitutional Growth Delay), GHD (Growth Hormone Deficiency), Endocrinal and Short Stature.