Mohammadhasan Lotfi; Sajjad Rahimi Pardanjani
Volume 22, Issue 1 , March and April 2015, , Pages 93-105
Abstract
Background and purpose: Due to the very high prevalence of congenital hypothyroid ism disease in Yazd city and lack of similar information ,in case of upgrading the knowledge levels of growth qualifications among children of this city, present research was aimed at studying growth pattern of thefirst5 ...
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Background and purpose: Due to the very high prevalence of congenital hypothyroid ism disease in Yazd city and lack of similar information ,in case of upgrading the knowledge levels of growth qualifications among children of this city, present research was aimed at studying growth pattern of thefirst5 years of children's life suffering from congenital hypothyroidism.
Methods and Materials: In this case a retrospective cohort study was performed on all neonates born that have been diagnosed as patient by screening programduring2006to 2008, after considering inclusion and exclusion criteria. The growth patterns of height, weight and head circumference of first 5years of children's life were study and compared to growth patterns of normal children of Yazd city to separate of age and sex in 3, 15,50,85,97 percentiles.
Findings: The growth patterns of height, weight and head circumference among girl patients increased parallel to growth patterns of healthy girls of Yazd city. Among boy patients growth patterns of height and weight became similar to normal growth patternsafter36 and 9months respectively,but the growth pattern of head circumference declined after 6months.
Conclusion: By curing the patients during a sufficient period of time, there can be hope that the growth patterns of these children be similar to the normal desirable range again.