Article
The adolescent growth spurt in children with cystic fibrosis.
Annals of human biology - 1 Jan 2000
Byard P J
Abstract excerpt
The adolescent spurt in 230 children with cystic fibrosis (CF) treated at the Cleveland CF centre in northeastern Ohio was compared to that found in normal children from the Fels Longitudinal Growth Study in southwestern Ohio. The Preece-Baines Model 1 (PB1) growth equation was applied to longitudinal height data from both samples to describe a large number of data points for each child in terms of a few...
Topics
- Adolescent
- Child
- Cystic Fibrosis
- Female
- Genotype
- Growth
- Humans
- Longitudinal Studies
- Lung
- Male
- Reference Values
