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  • Title: Decreased final height of children with growth deceleration secondary to poor weight gain during late childhood.
    Author: Lanes R, Soros A.
    Journal: J Pediatr; 2004 Jul; 145(1):128-30. PubMed ID: 15238923.
    Abstract:
    Eighteen healthy, short children with normal growth during most of their childhood were evaluated after a sustained fall in weight and reduced linear growth. Growth was followed after nutritional counseling until final height. This report demonstrates the need for an appropriate-for-age weight gain in growing children as a relatively minor but prolonged caloric restriction, leading to a sustained fall in weight centiles, will affect growth velocities long term and may lead to reduced final heights.
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