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Growth variation, final height and secular trend
Growth and body height have always been interesting topics in the public opinion. Particularly the stupendous increase of some 15 to 19 cm in final adult height during the last 150 years in most European countries (the “secular trend”), the concomitant changes in body and head proportions, the tendency towards early onset of sexual maturation, the changes in the age when final height is being r...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Endocrine Journal
سال: 1998
ISSN: 0918-8959,1348-4540
DOI: 10.1507/endocrj.45.suppl_s145