Table 1.

Clinical characteristics of the patients. Data are numbers of patients, divided by gender in parentheses: boys/girls.

Characteristic	Value
No. of patients	567
Mean age [years] (± SD)	6.99 ± 2.59
Range of age [years]	0.9–17.4
No. of male patients	294
No. of female patients	259
Clinical diagnosis (M/F):
- Short stature - Gigantism - Precocious puberty	509 (294/215) 5 (3/2) 54 (11/43)

SD—standard deviation, M—male, F—female.