For example, a 62-pound, 50-inch tall, 8-year-old girl has a BMI of 17.5, which puts her at the 77th percentile for age. This is a healthy weight for her age and her parents should expect future weight gains to keep her BMI-for-age tracking along the 77th percentile as she gets older.
antipsychotic agents to cause hyperprolactinaemia is related to their potency in antagonising DA-2 receptors on the anterior pituitary. The patients greatest at risk are young women pre-puberty, due to HPG dysfunction
In both men and women, hyperprolactinemia is sometimes caused by a small tumor in the pituitary called a prolactinoma that secretes prolactin into the circulatory system. These tumors are usually benign, more common in women than men and occasionally large enough to cause headache or vision problems. A low production of thyroid hormone, called hypothyroidism, can also cause hyperprolactinemia because, in this disorder, the pituitary secretes too much of a factor that stimulates release of prolactin.