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Growth Disorders
- Overviews
- Diagnosis/Symptoms
- Treatment
- Specific Conditions
- Related Issues
- Clinical Trials
- Directories
- Organizations
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- Children
- Teenagers
- Adults
Overviews
- Overviews
- Underlying Conditions of Growth Abnormalities (MAGIC Foundation)
- What Is a Growth Disorder? (Nemours Foundation)
Diagnosis/Symptoms
- Diagnosis/Symptoms
- Growth Charts (Nemours Foundation)
- Growth Hormone (American Association for Clinical Chemistry)
Treatment
- Treatment
- FDA Approves Humatrope for Short Stature (Food and Drug Administration)
- Get the Facts: Growth Hormone Issues in Adults and Children (Hormone Foundation) - Large PDF file
- Information for People Treated with NHPP Human Growth Hormone (hGH) (National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases)
- Most Frequently Asked Questions When Beginning Growth Hormone Therapy (MAGIC Foundation)
Specific Conditions
- Specific Conditions
- Acromegaly (Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research)
- Acromegaly (National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases)
- Acromegaly (Somatotroph Adenomas) (UpToDate)
- Dental Problems Associated with GHD (MAGIC Foundation)
- Failure to Thrive (MAGIC Foundation)
- Idiopathic Short Stature: What You Need to Know (Hormone Foundation) - Links to PDF
- Panhypopituitarism (MAGIC Foundation)
- Russell-Silver Syndrome (MAGIC Foundation)
- Soto's Syndrome (National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke) - Short Summary
Related Issues
- Related Issues
- What Is an Endocrinologist? (Hormone Foundation)
Also available in: Spanish
Clinical Trials
- Clinical Trials
- ClinicalTrials.gov: Growth Disorders (National Institutes of Health)
Organizations
Statistics
- Statistics
- Boys Stature-for-Age and Weight-for-Age (National Center for Health Statistics) - Links to PDF
Also available in: Spanish - FASTATS: Body Measurements (National Center for Health Statistics)
- Girls Stature-for-Age and Weight-for-Age (National Center for Health Statistics) - Links to PDF
Also available in: Spanish
Children
- Children
- Central Precocious Puberty (MAGIC Foundation)
- Growth Disorders (Nemours Foundation)
- Growth Failure in Children with Kidney Disease (National Kidney and Urologic Diseases Information Clearinghouse)
- Growth Hormone Deficiency in Children (MAGIC Foundation)
Adults
- Adults
- Adults Who Live with Growth Hormone Deficiency (GHD) (MAGIC Foundation)
- Evaluation Process of Adults with Growth Hormone Deficiency (MAGIC Foundation)
- Transition from Child to Adult Growth Hormone Therapy (MAGIC Foundation)