Abstract:Growth retardation in children and adolescents occupies a significant place in the structure of endocrine morbidity. The article reveals the gender characteristics of growth retardation, comorbidities in children and adolescents who were examined in the endocrinology department of the Regional Children's Clinical Hospital in the city of Astrakhan for 12 months of 2017. Late diagnosis and, therefore, late treatment initiation worsen the growth prognosis, thereby preventing the patient from achieving socially ac… Show more
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