Talk:Idiopathic short stature

removed sentence

I removed the following because it makes no sense. There are many defnitions of short stature and any definition needs to specify purpose and population at a minimum. This info is missing here and by itself the sentence adds nothing to the article. alteripse 11:34, 27 September 2006 (UTC)

• According to Peter Conrad and Valerie Leiter as written in the journal of Health and Social Behavior (2004, Vol.45, pg.158-176).... "Short stature is defined as the lower 3 percentiles for age and sex, which is roughly two standard deviations below the sex-age means. For adult males it is 64.5 inches or less; for adult females it is 59.5 inches."

Dude, put it back! I read the article, and read the '2 deviation below the mean' and wondered - well, what the heck is that in terms of height? Unless you place a link to growth charts that state the SD (where? I can only find the average heights on wiki), that is VERY useful info. - 222.154.238.36 (talk) 01:40, 3 December 2008 (UTC)

Controversy

I'm surprised that the controversy section doesn't refer to risk-benefit analyses. If the benefits are sufficiently low (as seen recently with cold meds for very young children), then even the small risks involved in treatment are unethical. WhatamIdoing (talk) 19:40, 2 February 2008 (UTC)

"Controversy"

Do you realise what the implications of very short stature are? It almost universially negativily affects a person, from lower income, higher risk of depression and a multitude of other psych disease, lower grades, trouble getting married. If you are very short, your chances in life are generally reduced. Look up the statistics, it's old data. The potential positive benefits are enormous for the individual.... 87.59.124.210 (talk) 13:39, 14 October 2009 (UTC)

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