Awat Feizi, Mahin Hashemipour, Silva Hovsepian, Zeynab Amirkhani, Roya Kelishadi, Maryam Yazdi, Kamal Heydari, Ali Sajadi, Masoud Amini
Objectives. The aim of the current study was to investigate the growth status of CH, generate specialized growth charts of CH infants, and compare them with their counterparts of regional normal infants. Methods. In this prospective cohort study, 760 (345 girls and 415 boys) neonates born in 2002-2009 diagnosed by neonatal CH screening program in Isfahan were followed up from the time of diagnosis. 552 healthy children were recruited as a control group. The empirical 3rd, 15th, 50th, 85th, and 97th percentiles for height, weight, and head circumference of both sexes were determined and compared with their counterpart values of the control group...
2013: ISRN Endocrinology