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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Serious question.  Will doctors give this kids who don't have any growth hormone deficiency and are just short, as in falling where it would be expected based on parents (which can be plus or minus)?

If you are average (5-4) and your husband says he's 5-8 and possibly is not quite 5-8 (no offense, but just typical), a son who is 5-4 is on the shorter side of what would be expected for your heights but still perfectly normal.   Particularly if you look at extended family.  Is your husband the tallest male in his family?  It's more than just your heights.

I would think long and hard about giving my kid those shots.[/quote]

Short answer is yes, if you shop around enough, you will find a ped endocrinologist who will rx growth hormone. But it's not as simple as giving a shot.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/29/well/live/growth-hormones-short-children-height.html

If you don't want to read the article, the excerpt of note is below

"In JAMA Pediatrics in December, pediatric endocrinologists from Karolinska University Hospital reported that among 3,408 patients who were treated with recombinant growth hormone as children and adolescents and followed for up to 25 years, the risk of developing a cardiovascular event like a heart attack or stroke was two-thirds higher for men and twice as high for women than among 50,036 untreated but otherwise similar people.

The Swedish finding follows a report last June from a research team in Tokyo that growth hormone promotes biomedical pathways that stimulate the development of atherosclerosis, the basis for most cardiovascular events."

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There are significant known long term side effects. [/quote]

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