Children’s Growth Abnormalities – An Overview
Internet URL
http://www.magicfoundation.org/www/docs/108.897/children_growth_pattern_abnormalities.html 
Sponsoring Agency
MAGIC Foundation for Children's Growth
Description
It is often said that maintaining a normal growth pattern is nature's lab test for good health. Growth is influenced by many factors such as heredity, genetic or congenital, illness and medications, nutrition, hormones, and psychosocial environment. This page discusses underlying conditions of growth abnormalities and causes of poor growth.