Growth rate in adolescents with obsessive-compulsive disorder.
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.
Hamburger
S D
SD
Child Psychiatry Branch, NIMH, Bethesda, MD 20892.
Swedo
S
S
Whitaker
A
A
Davies
M
M
Rapoport
J L
JL
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