Dwarfism
Current as of: November 6, 2018
Author: Healthwise Staff
Medical Review:Adam Husney, MD – Family Medicine & Kathleen Romito, MD – Family Medicine & Alan C. Dalkin, MD – Endocrinology and Metabolism
Dwarfism is a condition causing the body to underdevelop during childhood. Dwarfism may be caused by low blood levels of the growth hormone (GH) during childhood. This leads to a very short height with arms and legs that are in proportion to the rest of the body. Other causes of dwarfism can lead to very short height…