BACKGROUND Impaired growth is a well-known complication in celiac disease, but factors associated with it are poorly known. We investigated this issue in a large cohort of children. METHODS 530 children with biopsy-proven celiac disease were included. The participants were divided into two groups on the basis of the presence (n = 182) or absence (n = 348) of growth disturbance at diagnosis. H...

There is increasing agreement among the nutrition community about the use of length/height-for-age as the indicator to monitor the long-term impact of chronic nutritional deficiencies. Stunting, an indicator of linear growth failure, has both long- and short-term consequences affecting growth and development and adult work potential. The number of stunted children in sub-Saharan Africa is expec...

Two dimensions of human security may be addressed by the economist: freedom from want and freedom from fear. This paper examines freedom from want by focussing on economic growth. Differences in growth rates, particularly over the last two centuries, have produced the present disparities between rich and poor countries, which in turn constitutes the problem of development. Growth also constitut...

The term failure to thrive (FTT) can imply very diVerent conditions, depending on the context. To a general paediatrician, it might conjure up a respectably clad child, sitting on an anxious mother’s lap as you study growth charts and test results in the hope of inspiration. To a social worker it might imply a wasted, miserable child found in a cold, dirty house. These diVering images reflect n...

Human capabilities play an important part in the emergence from stagnation to modern economic growth. Historical and macroeconomic studies show substantial effects for nutrition and health on income levels and, for poorer countries, on rates of growth, implying divergence. Cross-country examination of the joint dynamics of life expectancy and income shows that a stratified emergence from stagna...

Objective: The aim of the present study was to evaluate the effect of growth hormone on growth parameters such as Z scores for height, weight, and body mass index (BMI), and height velocity in two groups of children with chronic renal failure (CRF) treated with and without growth hormone.Methods: This longitudinal study was conducted on all children aged 6 months to 16 years with a short ...

Failure to thrive (FTT) is a syndrome of growth failure that results in an infant who is behaviorally difficult. The current thinking is that FTT results from a problematic infant-mother interaction, with the infant making a significant contribution to the interactional process. It is possible that the behavioral characteristics of the infant with FTT may be related to underlying physiologic re...

Adiabatic shear banding (ASB) is a unique dynamic failure mechanism that results in an unpredicted catastrophic failure due to a concentrated shear deformation mode. It is universally considered as a material or structural instability and as such, ASB is hardly controllable or predictable to some extent. ASB is modeled on the premise of stability analyses. The leading paradigm is that a competi...

Background Stunting, a form of anthropometric failure, disproportionately affects children in developing countries with a higher burden on children living in poverty. How early life deprivation affects physical growth over various life stages is less well-known. Objective We investigate the short- and long-run associations between household wealth in early life with physical growth in childhood...

the purpose of this study was to investigate any association between iga deficiency (igad) and juvenile rheumatoid arthritis (jra) among iranian children. this case-control study was carried out on 83 children who were diagnosed as jra according to american college of rheumatology (acr) criteria; patients were admitted at the rheumatology clinic of children's medical center, (tehran). serum imm...