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Multicenter Study
. 2015 Sep;7(3):183-91.
doi: 10.4274/jcrpe.2023.

Growth curves for Turkish Girls with Turner Syndrome: Results of the Turkish Turner Syndrome Study Group

Feyza Darendeliler, Ediz Yeşilkaya  1 , Abdullah Bereket, Firdevs Baş, Rüveyde Bundak, Erkan Sarı, Banu Küçükemre Aydın, Şükran Darcan, Bumin Dündar, Muammer Büyükinan, Cengiz Kara, Mümtaz M Mazıcıoğlu, Erdal Adal, Ayşehan Akıncı, Mehmet Emre Atabek, Fatma Demirel, Nurullah Çelik, Behzat Özkan, Bayram Özhan, Zerrin Orbak, Betül Ersoy, Murat Doğan, Ali Ataş, Serap Turan, Damla Gökşen, Ömer Tarım, Bilgin Yüksel, Oya Ercan, Şükrü Hatun, Enver Şimşek, Ayşenur Ökten, Ayhan Abacı, Hakan Döneray, Mehmet Nuri Özbek, Mehmet Keskin, Hasan Önal, Nesibe Akyürek, Kezban Bulan, Derya Tepe, Hamdi Cihan Emeksiz, Korcan Demir, Deniz Kızılay, Ali Kemal Topaloğlu, Erdal Eren, Samim Özen, Hüseyin Demirbilek, Saygın Abalı, Leyla Akın, Beray Selver Eklioğlu, Sultan Kaba, Ahmet Anık, Serpil Baş, Tolga Ünüvar, Halil Sağlam, Semih Bolu, Tolga Özgen, Durmuş Doğan, Esra Deniz Çakır, Yaşar Şen, Nesibe Andıran, Filiz Çizmecioğlu, Olcay Evliyaoğlu, Gülay Karagüzel, Özgür Pirgon, Gönül Çatlı, Hatice Dilek Can, Fatih Gürbüz, Çiğdem Binay, Veysel Nijat Baş, Celal Sağlam, Davut Gül, Adem Polat, Cengizhan Açıkel, Peyami Cinaz
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Multicenter Study

Growth curves for Turkish Girls with Turner Syndrome: Results of the Turkish Turner Syndrome Study Group

Feyza Darendeliler et al. J Clin Res Pediatr Endocrinol. 2015 Sep.

Abstract

Objective: Children with Turner syndrome (TS) have a specific growth pattern that is quite different from that of healthy children. Many countries have population-specific growth charts for TS. Considering national and ethnic differences, we undertook this multicenter collaborative study to construct growth charts and reference values for height, weight and body mass index (BMI) from 3 years of age to adulthood for spontaneous growth of Turkish girls with TS.

Methods: Cross-sectional height and weight data of 842 patients with TS, younger than 18 years of age and before starting any therapy, were evaluated.

Results: The data were processed to calculate the 3rd, 10th, 25th, 50th, 75th, 90th and 97th percentile values for defined ages and to construct growth curves for height-for-age, weight-for-age and BMI-for-age of girls with TS. The growth pattern of TS girls in this series resembled the growth pattern of TS girls in other reports, but there were differences in height between our series and the others.

Conclusion: This study provides disease-specific growth charts for Turkish girls with TS. These disease-specific national growth charts will serve to improve the evaluation of growth and its management with growth-promoting therapeutic agents in TS patients.

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Conflict of interest statement

Funding: This work was supported by the Turkish Pediatric Endocrinology and Diabetes Society (Grand number: 012013).

Figures

Figure 1
Figure 1. Height percentiles of Turkish Turner syndrome girls
Figure 2
Figure 2. Mean change in height standard deviation scores of Turkish Turner syndrome girls
Figure 3
Figure 3. The comparison of the mean height of Turner syndrome girls with that of other nationalities and age-matched healthy Turkish children
Figure 4
Figure 4. Body weight percentiles of Turkish Turner syndrome girls
Figure 5
Figure 5. Mean change in weight standard deviation scores of Turkish Turner syndrome girls
Figure 6
Figure 6. The comparison of the mean weight of Turkish Turner syndrome girls with the age-matched healthy population
Figure 7
Figure 7. Body mass index percentiles of Turkish Turner syndrome girls
Figure 8
Figure 8. Mean change in body mass index standard deviation scores of Turkish Turner syndrome girls
Figure 9
Figure 9. The comparison of the mean body mass index of Turkish Turner syndrome girls with the age-matched healthy population
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