Short in Stature
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Poor height growth
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Content updated on Jan 4, 2023
About the symptom
It refers to any child who has a height well below what is typical for that child's age and sex.
When to see a doctor
Seek professional care if you experience any of the following symptoms
Shorter than other children of similar age
Possible causes
- Familial short stature
A genetic cause of short height. It occurs when a child inherits genes for short height, from one or both of his parents.
- Hypothyroidism
A disorder where levels of thyroid hormone in the body are abnormally low. These hormones are needed for growth, development and metabolism.
- Uterine hypoplasia
Uterine hypoplasia is when a girl is born with a uterus that is abnormally small. The condition is sometimes referred to as a hypoplastic uterus.
- Gynecomastia
- Turner syndrome
- Hypopituitarism
- Neurofibromatosis
- Arteriosclerosis obliterans
Related serious diseases
- Epilepsy
Epilepsy is a neurological disorder where brain activity becomes abnormal. This can cause seizures of varying lengths of time and severity. Epilepsy can affect people of any age and may occur due to genetic disorders or brain injury such as stroke.
- Brain tumor
Questions your doctor may ask about this symptom
Your doctor may ask these questions to check for this symptom
Are (or were) you shorter than other children around your age?
Do you have headaches or does your head feel heavy?
Do you have any swelling in any part of your body?
Other Related Symptoms
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Symptoms treated by the same specialty
Reviewed By:
Yoshinori Abe, MD (Internal medicine)
Dr. Abe graduated from The University of Tokyo School of Medicine in 2015. He completed his residency at the Tokyo Metropolitan Health and Longevity Medical Center. He co-founded Ubie, Inc. in May 2017, where he currently serves as CEO & product owner at Ubie. Since December 2019, he has been a member of the Special Committee for Activation of Research in Emergency AI of the Japanese Association for Acute Medicine. | | Dr. Abe has been elected in the 2020 Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia Healthcare & Science category.
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