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W Weltersbach

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PubMed1990

[Beyond normal values--practical experiences with the standard deviation score (SDS) for the assessment of lung function measurements in acute bronchial asthma].

Expressing results of pulmonary function tests as a percentage of the subject's predicted value (% predicted) has been widely adopted. This method has some serious disadvantages: The range of values % predicted in the reference population depends on the body height and varies from index to index. An alternative is to use the standard deviation score (SDS), which is derived by dividing the difference between the recorded and predicted value by the standard deviation of the residuals (SDS = (recorded-predicted)/SD).

Acute Disease↗
PubMed1989

[The causes of short stature in children in ambulatory care].

The data relating to all children referred over a 10-year period to the out-patient department of a children's hospital in a West German city because of growth retardation were retrospectively analyzed. A diagnosis of short stature was made in 306 patients. The proportion of boys to girls was 2.5:1. The average age of the patients was about 10 years (0.75-17.4); 9.8% of the children were less than 4 years old, and 5.9% were over 16 years. In 68.3% of the patients the Study revealed constitutional delay of growth or familial short stature or a combination of two. Twelve children (3.9%) were demonstrated to have growth hormone deficiency.

Adolescent↗