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The American Journal of Psychiatry, VOL. 146, No. 5

REGULAR ARTICLES | May 01, 1989

Growth rate in adolescents with obsessive-compulsive disorder

Am J Psychiatry 1989;146:652-655.

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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.

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