Status battle for tall children hits new heights, and a few lows
China DailyIt's only natural Every summer vacation, the endocrinology clinic at Shanghai Children's Hospital is filled with parents from across the country bringing their children for consultations about growth and height issues. "However, in recent years we have indeed observed more overweight and obese boys experiencing advanced bone age and earlier puberty," she said. Most parents are eager for doctors to prescribe puberty suppression injections or growth hormone injections, which are relatively aggressive methods for promoting growth, even though only a small proportion of children truly require these treatments, Zhou said. Zhang Kexin, 38, became concerned when doctors said her 11-year-old son might enter puberty within a year, after they discovered he had an advanced bone age of 1.5 years.
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Status battle for tall children hits new heights, and a few lows
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