"Growth Disorders" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
Deviations from the average values for a specific age and sex in any or all of the following: height, weight, skeletal proportions, osseous development, or maturation of features. Included here are both acceleration and retardation of growth.
| Descriptor ID |
D006130
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| MeSH Number(s) |
C23.550.393
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| Concept/Terms |
Growth Disorders- Growth Disorders
- Disorder, Growth
- Growth Disorder
- Stunted Growth
- Growth, Stunted
- Stunting
- Stuntings
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 1996 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2005 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2008 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2009 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2010 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2012 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2014 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2015 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2017 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
| 2018 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
| 2019 | 5 | 3 | 8 |
| 2020 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
| 2021 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2022 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2023 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Growth Disorders" by people in Profiles.
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The association of intrauterine and postnatal growth patterns and nutritional status with toddler body composition. BMC Pediatr. 2023 07 06; 23(1):342.
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Dietary diversity, food insecurity and the double burden of malnutrition among children, adolescents and adults in South Africa: Findings from a national survey. Front Public Health. 2022; 10:948090.
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Phenotype and treatment of elderly onset compared with younger onset rheumatoid arthritis patients in international daily practice. Rheumatology (Oxford). 2021 10 02; 60(10):4801-4810.
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Stunting in infancy, pubertal trajectories and adult body composition: the Birth to Twenty Plus cohort, South Africa. Eur J Clin Nutr. 2021 01; 75(1):189-197.
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Recovery of HIV encephalopathy in perinatally infected children on antiretroviral therapy. Dev Med Child Neurol. 2020 11; 62(11):1309-1316.
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Catch-up growth in height and cognitive function: Why definitions matter. Econ Hum Biol. 2020 05; 37:100853.
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Water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) in sub-Saharan Africa and associations with undernutrition, and governance in children under five years of age: a systematic review. J Dev Orig Health Dis. 2021 02; 12(1):6-33.
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Stunting and growth velocity of adolescents with perinatally acquired HIV: differential evolution for males and females. A multiregional analysis from the IeDEA global paediatric collaboration. J Int AIDS Soc. 2019 11; 22(11):e25412.
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The association between household socio-economic status, maternal socio-demographic characteristics and adverse birth and infant growth outcomes in sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic review. J Dev Orig Health Dis. 2020 08; 11(4):317-334.
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Mitochondrial Impairment in Well-Suppressed Children with Perinatal HIV-Infection on Antiretroviral Therapy. AIDS Res Hum Retroviruses. 2020 01; 36(1):27-38.