Although a height >2SD below the mean for age and gender is used to define short stature, evaluation of short children based on this criteria yields organic etiology only in 14 % of these children. However, when a height SD <−3 is considered for the evaluation of short stature, the proportion of children with organic causes increases to 58 %. Nevertheless, children with height between −2SD and ...

Authors: Noémie SA Becker, Paul Verdu, Barry Hewlett and Samuel Pavard 1 Ecoanthropology and Ethnobiology UMR 7206, CNRS-MNHN-Univ. Paris7, Musée de l'Homme, 75016 Paris; 2 Department of Anthropology, Washington State University, Vancouver, WA 98686 USA. *All authors equally contributed to this work Corresponding author: Samuel Pavard : Ecoanthropology and Ethnobiology UMR 7206, Musée de l'Homm...

BACKGROUND It is unclear whether Crohn's disease (CD) is associated with skeletal disproportion in adulthood. METHODS Height (Ht), sitting height (SHt) and leg length were studied in 44 children (male: 22), 23 adults (male: 10) with childhood-onset (CO) CD and 26 adults (male: 9) with adult-onset (AO) CD with a median (range) age of 13.7 (10, 17.3), 21.5 (18, 32) and 31.0 (22, 40) years, resp...

generalizing the Neron-Tate pairing on abelian varieties. Note that our cycles are of a dimension where their expected intersection has dimension −1. Example 1.1 ([9], [3]) Let C/K be a smooth projective curve, with ∞ ∈ C(K) giving i : C ↪→ Pic(C). Let 〈·, ·〉NT : Pic(C)(K)×Pic(C)(K)→ R be the Neron-Tate height pairing, identifying P̂ic(A) ∼= Pic(A) via the theta divisor. Then, once we have defin...

A large literature documents a widespread prevalence of small stature among Indian children as well as adults. We show that a height gap relative to a richer population such as whites in England also exists, although substantially reduced, among adult immigrants of Indian ethnicity in England. This is despite positive height selection into migration, demonstrated by ethnic Indian adults in Engl...

that he beautifully develops earlier in the work. More work on the functional consequences would allow him to fill in even more gaps in the literature. Even with these omissions, however, Cuff provides a valuable and nuanced view of the factors that influenced stature for these men in the antebellum period, and he also devises, very cleverly, a way around a troubling and persistent problem in t...

Methods: From a population of 905 individuals aged 35 years and over, 388 were randomly selected. Selection of subjects was done with official records of the Baskil Health Care Center. Although repeated invitations were made, 32 individuals (29 men and 3 women) did not participate. Thus, 356 subjects were enrolled. Blood cholesterol and blood pressure levels, body height and weight were measure...