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- Title
A new stress-related syndrome of growth failure and hyperphagia in children, associated with reversibility of growth-hormone insufficiency.
- Authors
Skuse, D; Albanese, A; Stanhope, R; Gilmour, J; Voss, L
- Abstract
Growth failure without organic aetiology but associated with behavioural disturbance and psychosocial stress has been termed psychosocial short stature. This condition is not a valid diagnostic entity, but encompasses failure to thrive, stunting secondary to chronic malnutrition, and idiopathic hypopituitarism. Some children show spontaneous catch-up growth when removed from the source of stress, without further treatment, but until now precise definition of this subgroup for the purpose of clinical identification has not been possible.
- Publication
Lancet (London, England), 1996, Vol 348, Issue 9024, p353
- ISSN
0140-6736
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1016/s0140-6736(96)01358-x