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2004 SEP 20 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- As leading gymnasts from around the world competed in the summer games, new research shows that the intensive physical training that elite artistic gymnasts undergo from childhood through puberty slows bone and skeletal development.
The slowdown makes both male and female gymnasts shorter than others of their age as well as shorter than their genetically predisposed heights, according to new research being published in The Endocrine Society's Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism. In addition, skeletal maturation in female adolescent gymnasts is nearly 2 years behind that of other girls; in male gymnasts, ...