Disorders of growth

Most children who have short or tall stature are healthy and simply at the extremes of the normal range. Plotting a child on a centile chart and following the growth pattern over time helps to assess whether the pattern of growth is normal. Children settle onto a centile position by 2 or 3 years of age, and after this a normal child grows fast enough to stay on the same centile until puberty. During puberty, sex steroids stimulate growth directly and increase growth hormone (GH) secretion, leading to the pubertal growth spurt.

Source: Medicine - July 23, 2021 Category: Internal Medicine Authors: Nicola Bridges Tags: Growth and puberty Source Type: research