Sentence examples for constitutional delay from inspiring English sources
Although the commonest cause of delayed puberty is constitutional delay, all boys with delayed puberty who are over the age of 14 years should be assessed.
To analyze the GNRHR in patients with normosmic isolated hypogonadotropic hypogonadism (IHH) and constitutional delay of growth and puberty (CDGP).
Objective: To assess if leuprolide acetate stimulation discriminates between hypogonadotropic hypogonadism (HH) and constitutional delay of puberty (CDP) in males.
To examine whether supplemental nutrition augments the anabolic actions of growth hormone (GH) in boys with constitutional delay of growth and maturation (CDGM).
To test the hypothesis that prepubertal children with presumed constitutional delay of growth and development (CDGD) have enhanced insulin sensitivity and, therefore, insulin sensitivity is associated with later onset of puberty.
Wehkalampi, K., Widén, E., Laine, T., Palotie, A. & Dunkel, L. Patterns of inheritance of constitutional delay of growth and puberty in families of adolescent girls and boys referred to specialist pediatric care.
Some children are just late bloomers (called constitutional growth delay) – an x-ray of their bones (left hand and wrist, and comparing it with other children of their age) will show a delay in development, and they may be late starting puberty.
The differential diagnosis of isolated short stature includes nonpathologic and pathologic familial short stature, constitutional growth delay (as discussed earlier), a primary endocrinopathy (Table 1), short stature in girls with X chromosome abnormalities (i.e., Turner syndrome or its variants), or short stature secondary to mutations in the SHOX gene.
An appeal to Zimbabwe's constitutional court to delay the vote by two weeks was struck down.
Many members of Mr. Chirac's party have urged him to use special constitutional powers to delay imposing the law pending negotiations, to avoid inciting more anger among protesters.
Mr. Airikyan briefly considered invoking a constitutional provision to delay the election for two weeks as a result of his injury, but he ultimately decided to allow the balloting to proceed.
