Growth and Adult Height in Patients with Crohn's Disease Treated with Anti-Tumor Necrosis Factor α Antibodies.

Growth and Adult Height in Patients with Crohn's Disease Treated with Anti-Tumor Necrosis Factor α Antibodies.

Inflammation contributes to growth failure associated with inflammatory bowel diseases. Anti-TNFα therapy induces sustained remission and short-term improvements in height velocity and/or height standard deviation score (H-SDS) patients with Crohn's disease. The purpose of this study was to eva...

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Main Authors: Sarah Bamberger, Christine Martinez Vinson, Damir Mohamed, Jérôme Viala, Jean-Claude Carel, Jean-Pierre Hugot, Dominique Simon
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5026336?pdf=render

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