Short Stature

CHOP researchers find self-esteem of healthy children with short stature is tied to social supports — not height.

Novel research could help patients and parents deciding about growth hormone treatment for idiopathic short stature.

Although growth failure in children is a sensitive sign that an underlying health problem may be occurring, short stature itself is not a disease. So researchers at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia wanted to identify the factors that influence families to seek medical care for short stature, which in some cases includes giving a child nightly injections of human growth hormone.