A Retrospective Analysis of Patients with Short Stature in Eastern China between 2013 and 2019

Table 1

Aetiology classification and rhGH treatment with short stature.

Aetiology classification	Cases		rhGH treatment
		Boy/girl		Boy/girl
Short with disease	730	464/266	334	216/118
GHD	579	374/205	271	178/93
Complete GHD	219	145/74	111	77/34
Partial GHD	360	229/131	160	101/59
MPHD	8	6/2	6	4/2
Hypothyroidism	46	24/22	26	15/11
SGA	40	29/11	15	9/6
Skeletal development disorder	12	5/7	3	2/1
Intracranial tumour	12	10/2	0	0
Chromosomal disease	16	2/14	6	1/5
Turner syndrome	14	0/14	5	0/5
Other chromosomal disease	2	2/0	1	1/0
Chronic systemic disease	17	14/3	7	7/0
Short without disease	415	276/139	150	100/50
ISS	276	174/102	85	53/32
FSS	122	88/34	63	45/18
Physical puberty delay	17	14/3	2	2/0
Total	1145	740/405	484	316/168

Abbreviations: rhGH: recombinant human growth hormone; GHD: growth hormone deficiency; MPHD: multiple pituitary hormone deficiency; SGA: small for gestational age; ISS: idiopathic short stature; FSS: familial short stature.