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Further important information about Growth Hormone is available in the website section on the OZGROW Subcommittee
Last comprehensive update completed on 29 July 2020
Growth Charts
Australian and New Zealand Growth Charts
The APEG endorsed growth charts for boys and girls in Australia and New Zealand:
APEG would like to recognise Pfizer in their support of providing these growth charts.
Other Growth Charts
- Infants and children less than 2 years of age – use the WHO growth standards
- Children between 2 yrs and 18 yrs use the CDC charts – Girls and Boys
RECOMMENDED CHARTS FOR GIRLS AND BOYS AT DIFFERENT AGES ARE LISTED BELOW
| Girls | Boys | Centiles | ||
| 0 – 24 months | World Health Organisation (WHO) 2006 | Weight | Weight | 3rd – 97th
3rd – 97th 3rd – 97th |
| 2 – 20 years | Centre for Disease Control (CDC) USA 2000 | Height & Weight | Height & Weight | 3rd – 97th
3rd – 97th |
DOWNLOAD: CDC Height Chart 1st percentile data – females and males (centimetres)
Growth Charts for Specific Conditions and Groups
- Please refer to the Magic Foundation Growth Chart website for access to charts including those for:
- Cerebal Palsy
- Down Syndrome
- Turner Syndrome
- Russell Silver Syndrome
- Achondroplasia
- Williams Syndrome
- Prader Willi Syndrome (go to G for Growth charts)
- DiGeorge Syndrome (AKA 22q11 deletion syndrome).
- Alternative Growth Charts (Wiley online library, August 2012)
- Costello Syndrome. (Wiley online library, August 2012)
- Noonan and Noonan-like syndromes with mutation in the RAS/MAPK pathway (Wiley online library, August 2012)
- Alternative Growth Charts (2011) Please go to page 15 – 18 for Growth Charts.
- Smith-Lemli-Opitz Syndrome (Wiley online library, August 2012)
- Turner Syndrome:
- CLICK HERE for TS 95th percentile height
- CLICK HERE for TS Mean Untreated Growth velocity
- For details of TS GH eligibility, please see PBS Indications and Regulations – Paediatric use of Growth Hormone in Australia (June 2020)
Paediatric Growth Hormone Resources for Health Professionals:
AUSTRALIA
- Australian Government program for growth hormone
- Department of Health GH information
- Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme GH information
- Department of Human Services GH information (Current application forms all located at bottom of this page link)
- Update to GH indications (Feb 2019): Changes to application process matrix
- Update to GH indications (Feb 2019): GH Item and restriction codes
- Update to GH indications (Feb 2019): Guide for prescribers
- Update to GH indications (Feb 2019): GH Dose and cartridge quantity calculator (excel)
- Update to GH indications (Feb 2019): NEW initial GH application form
- Please CLICK HERE to view instructions from Human Services website to complete, upload and submit online applications
- PBS Growth Hormone Program for transition patients + FAQ (1 January 2020)
- GH Online Authority Instructions (Video)
- PBS Prescribing Criteria for Growth Hormone Treatment for Paediatric Patients (April 2020) produced by Pfizer.
- This document is available to members once signed in, in the members section at the bottom of this screen.
- PBS Indications and Regulations – Paediatric use of Growth Hormone in Australia (March 2021)
- Recommended Guidelines for GH Injections
- Growth Hormone Treatment Information Sheet – for patients prescribed Growth Hormone Treatment (ENSA, November 2022)
NEW ZEALAND
Growth Calculators
- 2000 CDC Growth calculator for 2 to 20 years – percentiles and Z-scores on children and adolescents from 2 to 20 years of age. Includes Weight-for-age, Stature-for-age, Weight-for-stature, and BMI-for-age
- Medscape medical calculators:
- CDC Height for Age Percentiles for Boys (2 – 20 years)
- CDC Height for Age Percentiles for Girls (2 – 20 years)
- CDC Weight for Age Percentiles for Boys (2 – 20 years)
- CDC Weight for Age Percentiles for Girls (2 – 20 years)
- CDC Weight for Height Percentiles for Boys (77 – 121 cm tall)
- CDC Weight for Height Percentiles for Girls (77 – 121 cm tall)
- CDC/NCHS Infant Head Circumference for Age Percentiles (<36 months)
- CDC/NCHS Infant Length for Age Percentiles (< 36 months)
- CDC/NCHS Infant Weight for Age Percentiles (< 36 months)
- CDC/NCHS Infant Weight for Length Percentiles (< 36 months)
Adult Growth Hormone Replacement
AUSTRALIA
- Adult growth hormone replacement was approved (December 2018) for use in Australia for adults with poor quality of life. Approval requires documentation of biochemical evidence of growth hormone deficiency and poor quality of life that improves with growth hormone replacement. Quality of life is assessed using the AGHDA-QOL questionnaire.
- Related documents (All current as ad December 2018)
- AGHDA-QOL questionnaire and instructions regarding its use
- Application forms for initiating and continuing growth hormone replacement.
- Somatropin – PBS Criteria for adults with severe GH deficiency
- GH Online Authority Instructions (Video)
- PBS GH Program for transition patients (1 January 2020)
- Correspondence from Dept of Health regarding GH for PWS (2020) – a copy of the correspondence can be viewed by APEG members only at the bottom of this page, once logged in as a member
NEW ZEALAND
Growth Hormone Application Forms
- All forms can be found HERE under “G”
- Growth hormone – continuing as a reclassified patient PBS authority application form (PB164)
- Growth hormone – continuing PBS authority application form (PB163)
- Growth hormone – initial PBS authority application form (PB162)
- Growth hormone – recommencement as a reclassified patient PBS authority application form (PB166)
- Growth hormone – recommencement PBS authority application form (PB165)
- Growth hormone deficiency – mature skeleton or aged 18 years or older continuing PBS authority application form (PB249)
- Application form for Adult GH deficiency – with onset in adult life (>18yo) PB248 (Growth hormone deficiency – adult onset initial PBS authority application form (PB248))
- Application form for Adult GH deficiency – with onset in childhood (<18yo) PB288 (Growth hormone deficiency – childhood onset initial PBS authority application form (PB288))
- Initial application for any child starting GH treatment
Professional Societies
- The Growth Hormone Research Society
- Please find further professional society links in ‘Pituitary section’ of APEG website
- International Classification of Pediatric Endocrine Diagnoses (ICPED) – a comprehensive diagnostic list for endocrine diagnoses (APEG associated worldwide collaboration). Scroll down page to individual chapters on each diagnostic group.
Support Groups
- Turner Syndrome Association of Australia
- Short Statured People of Australia
- Little People of America
- MAGIC Foundation (USA) – large growth disorder support group
- The Hormone Foundation (USA)
- Acromegaly.Org
Other resources and links
- ANZSPED Patient Information Statement: Growth Hormone treatment in children and adolescents (ANZSPED 2023)
- Hormones and Me Booklet Series. CLICK HERE to find the booklets listed below
- Growth Hormone Deficiency in Adults
- Growth Problems in Children
- Intrauterine Growth Retardation (IUGR)
- Turner Syndrome
- Turner Syndrome Management Guidelines (2003)
- Turner Syndrome (Explain hormones information website)
- Charlies’s clinical calculators interactive growth charts (US site – metric)
- Understanding Growth Charts for Kids – what those height and weight percentiles mean
- Bone Age Assessment – Tanner Whitehouse electronic version
- Growth Hormone Research Society – Consensus Statements
- Convert Inches and Centimetres
- Growth Hormone Information Sheet (Merck Serono). Published November 2022
- Puberty in young people with disabilities (RCH, 2017)
- Health of people with intersex variations – Victorian Department of Health Resource (March 2019)
- Long-Term effects of Cancer Treatment (A guide for patients and families)– Royal Children’s Hospital (August 2014)
- Interactive educational website about Turner Syndrome (UK Based teaching)
- Peditools – website with various growth calculator links as well as various other paediatric endocrine resources
- SAGhE cohort study (Savendahl et al Lancet Diabetes and Endocrinology, Vol 8 August 2020 683 – 692) and editorial
- Genotropin Height Measurement Tool
- Anthropometric Measurements (Cambridge Biomedical Research Centre)
- Guidebook for promoting growth awareness campaign
- Recommended Guidelines for GH Injections