Auxology – an editorial

Auxology (Greek αυξω - I let grow) is the science of human growth and development. Significant public interest focuses on questions like: how does my child grow? How did our ancestors grow? How do other people around the world grow? Are there advantages to being tall and disadvantages to being short...

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Autores principales: Hermanussen, Michael, Bogin, Barry
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3930903/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24456842
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1824-7288-40-8
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spelling pubmed-39309032014-02-22 Auxology – an editorial Hermanussen, Michael Bogin, Barry Ital J Pediatr Editorial Auxology (Greek αυξω - I let grow) is the science of human growth and development. Significant public interest focuses on questions like: how does my child grow? How did our ancestors grow? How do other people around the world grow? Are there advantages to being tall and disadvantages to being short? Am I too fat? And many questions are related to the treatment of growth failure. BioMed Central 2014-01-23 /pmc/articles/PMC3930903/ /pubmed/24456842 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1824-7288-40-8 Text en Copyright © 2014 Hermanussen and Bogin; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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