A Retrospective Analysis of Patients with Short Stature in the South of China between 2007 and 2015

Table 1

Etiology classification of 4142 patients with short stature.

Etiology classification	Cases	Boy/girl
Short with disease	2278	1413/865
GHD	2014	1293/721
Complete GHD	627	431/196
Partial GHD	1387	862/525
MPHD	66	52/14
Hypothyroidism	9	2/7
SGA	32	18/14
Skeletal development disorder	19	10/9
Intracranial tumor	15	9/6
Chromosomal disease	65	3/62
Turner syndrome	62	0/62
Other chromosomal disease	3	3/0
Chronic systemic disease	58	26/32
Short without disease	1864	1133/731
ISS	1715	1030/685
FSS	111	71/40
Physical puberty delay	38	32/6
Total	4142	2546/1596

GHD, growth hormone deficiency; MPHD, male patients with heroin dependence; SGA, small for gestational age; ISS, idiopathic short stature; FSS, familial short stature.