"Growth Disorders" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
Deviations from the average values for a specific age and sex in any or all of the following: height, weight, skeletal proportions, osseous development, or maturation of features. Included here are both acceleration and retardation of growth.
| Descriptor ID |
D006130
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| MeSH Number(s) |
C23.550.393
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| Concept/Terms |
Growth Disorders- Growth Disorders
- Disorder, Growth
- Growth Disorder
- Stunted Growth
- Growth, Stunted
- Stunting
- Stuntings
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 1998 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2006 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2008 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2011 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2013 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2015 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2016 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2017 | 22 | 4 | 26 |
| 2018 | 15 | 3 | 18 |
| 2019 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
| 2020 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Growth Disorders" by people in Profiles.
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Child Undernutrition in Sudan: The Social and Economic Impact and Future Perspectives. Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2020 Dec 21; 104(3):1149-1152.
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Growth hormone deficiency, acromegaly and COVID-19: Transitioning from media reports to knowledge and a growth hormone hypothesis. Growth Horm IGF Res. 2021 02; 56:101363.
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COVID-19 pandemic and mitigation strategies: implications for maternal and child health and nutrition. Am J Clin Nutr. 2020 08 01; 112(2):251-256.
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COVID-19, economic impact and child mortality: A global concern. Clin Nutr. 2020 07; 39(7):2322-2323.
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A negative fallout of COVID-19 lockdown in Italy: Life-threatening delay in the diagnosis of celiac disease. Dig Liver Dis. 2020 10; 52(10):1092-1093.
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Pubertal boy presenting with mild disproportionate short stature. Arch Dis Child Educ Pract Ed. 2021 06; 106(3):149-151.
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Estimating the effect of measles vaccination on child growth using 191 DHS from 65 low- and middle-income countries. Vaccine. 2019 08 14; 37(35):5073-5088.
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Glucose Metabolism Evaluated by Glycated Hemoglobin and Insulin Sensitivity Indices in Children Treated with Recombinant Human Growth Hormone J Clin Res Pediatr Endocrinol. 2019 11 22; 11(4):350-357.
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Growth and mouth breathers. J Pediatr (Rio J). 2019 Mar - Apr; 95 Suppl 1:66-71.
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Use of quantitative molecular diagnostic methods to investigate the effect of enteropathogen infections on linear growth in children in low-resource settings: longitudinal analysis of results from the MAL-ED cohort study. Lancet Glob Health. 2018 12; 6(12):e1319-e1328.