Auxology - an editorial

Hermanussen, Michael; Bogin, Barry

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Auxology - an editorial

journal contribution

posted on 2014-07-04, 14:14 authored by Michael Hermanussen, Barry Bogin

Auxology (Greek alphaupsilonxiomega - I let grow) is the science of human growth and development. Significant public interest focuses on questions like: how does my child grow? How did our ancestors grow? How do other people around the world grow? Are there advantages to being tall and disadvantages to being short? Am I too fat? And many questions are related to the treatment of growth failure.

History

School

Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences

Published in

Italian Journal of Pediatrics

Pages

8 - 8

Citation

HERMANUSSEN, M. and BOGIN, B., 2014. Auxology - an editorial. Italian Journal of Pediatrics, 40, article 8.

Publisher

Biomed Central / © Hermanussen and Bogin

Version

VoR (Version of Record)

Publication date

2014

Notes

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