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What are the primary contributing influences to children being unusually short?
What are the primary contributing influences to children being unusually short?
- Parental height, birth order, education level, and cultural background
- Congenital factors, growth hormone deficiency, maternal smoking during pregnancy, and emotional difficulty (correct)
- Environmental factors, dietary issues, lack of exercise, and excessive screen time
- Social factors, academic pressure, lack of sleep, and excessive sugar consumption
What is growth hormone deficiency?
What is growth hormone deficiency?
- A deficiency of vitamin D causing stunted growth
- An excess of growth hormone causing rapid growth spurt
- The absence or deficiency of growth hormone produced by the pituitary gland to stimulate the body to grow (correct)
- A condition where the body produces too much insulin, inhibiting growth
Without treatment, what is the potential height outcome for most children with growth hormone deficiency?
Without treatment, what is the potential height outcome for most children with growth hormone deficiency?
- They will be slightly shorter than average height
- They will experience a growth spurt in adolescence
- They will not reach a height of five feet (correct)
- They will reach a height of six feet or taller
Why are twice as many boys as girls treated with growth hormone for short stature?
Why are twice as many boys as girls treated with growth hormone for short stature?
What did a recent study reveal about growth hormone treatment in childhood for children born small for gestational age or short in stature?
What did a recent study reveal about growth hormone treatment in childhood for children born small for gestational age or short in stature?
Most children with growth hormone deficiency will not reach a height of five ______
Most children with growth hormone deficiency will not reach a height of five ______
Twice as many boys as girls are treated with growth hormone, likely because there is a greater stigma attached to boys being ______
Twice as many boys as girls are treated with growth hormone, likely because there is a greater stigma attached to boys being ______
A recent study of children born small for gestational age or short in stature revealed that five years of growth hormone treatment in childhood was linked to an increase to close to average ______
A recent study of children born small for gestational age or short in stature revealed that five years of growth hormone treatment in childhood was linked to an increase to close to average ______
Growth hormone deficiency is the absence or deficiency of growth hormone produced by the pituitary gland to stimulate the body to ______
Growth hormone deficiency is the absence or deficiency of growth hormone produced by the pituitary gland to stimulate the body to ______
The primary contributing influences to children being unusually short are congenital factors (genetic or prenatal problems), growth hormone deficiency, a physical problem that develops in childhood, maternal smoking during pregnancy, or an emotional ______
The primary contributing influences to children being unusually short are congenital factors (genetic or prenatal problems), growth hormone deficiency, a physical problem that develops in childhood, maternal smoking during pregnancy, or an emotional ______
