In families, the low growth of children is a cause for concern. But there are few cases in which the limited stature can be traced back to a pathology. It is talked about in the Corriere Salute on newsstands for free with the Corriere della Sera on Thursday 22 September
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Half beauty height, the saying goes. And so when a child seems not to soar and does not grow enough, parents worry a lot: they compel the growth curves in the pediatric booklet, ask the doctor if something is wrong, they start thinking about supplements or even drugs to give a boost to development. . Not always for a height not really from watusso hides something that should worry and recently a study published in the Annals of Pediatric Endocrinology and Metabolism has taken stock of the diagnostic path to be taken to understand whether short stature is a growth disorder or not : as the authors point out, In many cases there is no underlying disease and we therefore speak of “idiopathic” short stature.
The fact remains that the poor growth still one of the reasons why parents more often resort to the endocrinologist, as explained by Mariacarolina Salerno, president of the Italian Society of Pediatric Endocrinology and Diabetology (SIEDP) and director of the Endocrinological Pediatrics Unit of the Department of Translational Medical Sciences of the Federico University II of Naples: The perception of insufficient height is enough to create emotional and physical stress in children and parents, so the specialists also come from the specialists who are not really short and the casuistry wide. Short stature is defined as a negative deviation of two standard deviations from the predicted height for age, sex and ethnic group: it is estimated that it affects only 3-5 percent of the population. For many, therefore, the missing centimeters are completely normal and connected to a short family stature or a growth retardation which will then be overcome by reaching the so-called target height.
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