title: Growth rate in adolescents with obsessive-compulsive disorder.
abstract: In an epidemiological study of 5,596 high school students, the authors identified 20 adolescents with obsessive-compulsive disorder and compared their physical size to that of adolescents of the same sex with no obsessive-compulsive symptoms. The obsessive-compulsive boys (N = 11) were shorter and weighed less than the other boys (N = 2,479) and were shorter than a subsample of normal boys (N = 33) and boys with other psychiatric diagnoses (N = 16). Regression analysis showed a flatter growth pattern through adolescence for the obsessive-compulsive boys (although within the 95% confidence limits for the other boys), suggesting a subtle neuroendocrine dysfunction in obsessive-compulsive disorder.
authors.affiliation: Child Psychiatry Branch, NIMH, Bethesda, MD 20892.
authors.forename: S D
authors.initials: SD
authors.lastname: Hamburger
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Swedo
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Whitaker
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Davies
authors.forename: J L
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Rapoport
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D001827:Body Height; D001835:Body Weight; D005260:Female; D006128:Growth; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000503:physiopathology; D009771:Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000503:physiopathology*; D010555:Personality Inventory; D011569:Psychiatric Status Rating Scales; D012737:Sex Factors