Question

What Are the Causes of Child Short Stature?

Answer

Hello! There are 7 factors that can lead to child short stature:

  1. Familial short stature.
  2. Approximately 1/3 of intrauterine growth retardation children will have short stature after adulthood.
  3. Growth hormone insensitivity or resistance syndrome, often caused by growth hormone receptor gene mutations, and is usually inherited in an autosomal recessive manner across generations.
  4. Skeletal growth developmental disorders: Various bone and cartilage maldevelopments, each with distinctive facial features and body shape.
  5. Congenital ovarian hypoplasia should be identified through karyotype testing.