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Purpose: This study is aimed at identifying the ethical profiles of children with an assessed size shortness in the Children's Endocrinology Clinic of the Children's Health and Diseases Headquarters of the Fırat University Hospital located in the Elazığ province center. Tools and Methods: In our clinic between 01.06.2013 and 01.06.2017 a work group was created with 1241 male children with a size standard deviation score (SDS) ≤-2 or lower than -2 SDS in the length of monitoring (55.1%). The clinical information of children, antro-pometric, radiological and laboratory examination results were evaluated backward. Heavy size shortness is defined as to be the neck ≤-3 SDS. Results: The media application age was 11.2 years (December: 0.2-18.0) and the frequency of heavy size shortness was 27.1%. The average size SDS for children in the application was -2,78±0,75, weight SDS -2,30±1,15 and body mass index (VKI) SDS -0,87±1,36. The application age of boys was higher than the age of girls (10.2±4,8 and 9,6±4,9) (p = 0,007) and the frequency of boys in the age group of 12-18 was higher (p = 0,007). As a result of insufficient monitoring, the remaining 959 short-lived children, 526 (54.8%) were pathological, 367 (38.3%) nor-maline variants (family and/or structural) and 66 (6.9%) idiopathic length shortness. Malnutrition was the most common etiological cause in all children with 27.3 percent, while endocrine diseases were ranked second with 16.5 percent. In children with severe size shortcomings, the frequency of pathological size shortcomings was 91.1%, and the most common (39.4%) of endocrine diseases in this group was the etiological cause. The result: This study shows that about one-third of children with size shortness may have a variable size shortness of the normal and that the cause of pathological size shortness should be insighted, especially in isolated malnutrition and endocrine diseases.

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