Ron G Rosenfeld
Ron G Rosenfeld
Although growth hormone (GH) therapy is virtually always effective in accelerating growth and restoring height potential to children with GH deficiency (GHD), the expansion of its use to a wide variety of other clinical disorders associated...
Paul H Wise
Paul H Wise
Translating the new science of growth into constructive policy will not happen naturally. Rather, the emerging science will need to be reframed to address certain core policy requirements. First, the complexity of early genetic and environm...
Alexandre Archanjo Ferraro,Maria Teresa Bechere Fernandes
Alexandre Archanjo Ferraro
Many studies in different settings and times provided us with enough evidence of the association between environmental exposures (mainly nutrition) during pregnancy/infancy and later health outcomes, such as adult non-communicable diseases ...
Catherine Law
Catherine Law
Mandy B Belfort,Matthew W Gillman
Mandy B Belfort
More rapid infant weight gain is associated with long-term benefits, such as better neurodevelopmental outcomes for some infants, but also with harms, such as an increased risk of later obesity and higher blood pressure. Determining the opt...
Lawrence T Weaver
Lawrence T Weaver
Growth charts have become widely used, if not universal, tools for the assessment of the growth and health of children. In 2006, the WHO published a set of charts designed to represent standards to which all the world's children should aspi...
Epidemiologic transitions: migration and development of obesity and cardiometabolic disease in the developing world [0.03%]
流行病学的转变：肥胖和心血管代谢性疾病在发展中国家的迁移和发展趋势
Terrence Forrester
Terrence Forrester
For centuries, the challenge has been the maintenance of bodyweight in the face of marginal food availability. Since the industrial revolution, energy expenditure related to economic activity and domestic life has fallen progressively as te...
Linda S Adair
Linda S Adair