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Author Affiliations and Disclosures: Matthew Simhon, Columbia University Medical Center; Benjamin Roye, Columbia University, POSNA (Grants/Research Support); Hiroko Matsumoto, Columbia University Medical Center, CSF (Grants/Research Support), SRS (Grants/Research Support), POSNA (Grants/Research Support), CSSG (Consultant); Sumeet Garg, Children’s Hospital Colorado, Pediatric Orthopaedic Society of North America (Advisory Board or Panel), POSNA (Advisory Board or Panel), US News & World Report Best Childrens Hospitals Orthopedics Working Group (Advisory Board or Panel), US News & World Report Children’s Hospital Orthopedics Working Group (Advisory Board or Panel), Medtronic (Consultant), Decision Support in Medicine (Other Financial or Material Support (royalties, patents, etc), Decision Support Medicine (Other Financial or Material Support (royalties, patents, etc); Amer Samdani, Shriners Hospitals for Children — Philadelphia, Children’s Spine Study Group (Advisory Board or Panel), Childrens Spine Study Group, Scoliosis Research Society, Setting Scoliosis Straight Foundation (Advisory Board or Panel), Scoliosis Research Society (Advisory Board or Panel), Setting Scoliosis Straight Foundation (Advisory Board or Panel), SRS; CSSG; SSSF (Advisory Board or Panel), Depuy Synthes; Globus; Misonix; Stryker; Zimmer Biomet; Ethicon (Consultant), DePuy, A Johnson & Johnson Company (Consultant), DePuy, A Johnson & Johnson Company, Ethicon, Globus Medical, Misonix, Stryker, Zimmer Biomet (Consultant), Ethicon (Consultant), Globus Medical (Consultant), Misonix (Consultant), Stryker (Consultant), Zimmer Biomet (Consultant) ; John Smith, University of Utah, Chest Wall and Spine Deformity Research Foundation (Advisory Board or Panel), Children’s Spine Foundation (Advisory Board or Panel), Biomet (Consultant), DePuy Synthes (Consultant), Depuy Synthes, Spine (Consultant), Ellipse Technologies (Consultant), Globus Medical (Consultant), Spinegaurd (Consultant), Spineguard (Consultant), Synthes (Consultant), DePuy Synthes (Other Financial or Material Support (royalties, patents, etc), Synthes (Other Financial or Material Support (royalties, patents, etc), VEPTR 2 (Other Financial or Material Support (royalties, patents, etc); Paul Sponseller, Johns Hopkins, JBJS, Oakstone medical (Advisory Board or Panel), Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery (Advisory Board or Panel), Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery; Scoliosis Research Society (Advisory Board or Panel), Scoliosis Research Society (Advisory Board or Panel), Depuy Synthes (Consultant), DePuy Synthes Spine (Consultant), DePuy, A Johnson & Johnson Company (Consultant), Depuy Synthes (Grants/Research Support), DePuy, A Johnson & Johnson Company (Grants/Research Support), DePuy, A Johnson&Johnson Company (Other Financial or Material Support (royalties, patents, etc), DePuy, A Johnson & Johnson Company; Globus Medical; Journal of Bone and Joint Surgeryoakstone medical (Other Financial or Material Support (royalties, patents, etc), Globus (Other Financial or Material Support (royalties, patents, etc), Globus Medical (Other Financial or Material Support (royalties, patents, etc), Globus; Depuy Synthes; Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery; oakstone medical (Other Financial or Material Support (royalties, patents, etc), Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery (Other Financial or Material Support (royalties, patents, etc), Journal of Bone and Joint Surgeryoakstone medical (Other Financial or Material Support (royalties, patents, etc); Michael Vitale, Columbia University Medical Center, Childrens Spine Foundation (Advisory Board or Panel), Childrens Spine Foundation (Advisory Board or Panel), IPOS (Advisory Board or Panel), Pediatric Orthopaedic Society of North America (Advisory Board or Panel), POSNA (Advisory Board or Panel), SSG, POSNA, IPOS (Advisory Board or Panel), Biomet (Consultant), Medtronic Sofamor Danek (Consultant), Stryker (Consultant), Stryker, BIomet (Consultant), Wellinks (Consultant), Wellinks (unpaid consultant) (Consultant), Biomet (Grants/Research Support), Childrens Spine Foundation (Grants/Research Support), Childrens Spine Foundation (Grants/Research Support), CSSG, SRS, POSNA, OREF (Grants/Research Support), CSSG, SRS, POSNA; OREF (Grants/Research Support), OREF (Grants/Research Support), OSRF (Grants/Research Support), POSNA (Grants/Research Support), SRS (Grants/Research Support), SRS, POSNA, OSRF (Grants/Research Support), Biomet (Other Financial or Material Support (royalties, patents, etc), DePuy (Other Financial or Material Support (royalties, patents, etc), DePuy, A Johnson&Johnson Company (Other Financial or Material Support (royalties, patents, etc), FOX (Other Financial or Material Support (royalties, patents, etc), FOX, Childrens Spine Foundation (Other Financial or Material Support (royalties, patents, etc), IPOS (Other Financial or Material Support (royalties, patents, etc), Medtronic (Other Financial or Material Support (royalties, patents, etc), OMEGA (Other Financial or Material Support (royalties, patents, etc), Synthes (Other Financial or Material Support (royalties, patents, etc); Pediatric Spine Study Group, Growing Spine Foundation (Grants/Research Support), Childrens Spine Foundation (Grants/Research Support), POSNA (Grants/Research Support), FDA (Grants/Research Support), NuVasive (Grants/Research Support), DePuy Synthes Spine (Grants/Research Support)
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Simhon, M., Roye, B., Matsumoto, H. et al. Bigger is Better: Larger Thoracic Height is Associated with Increased Health Related Quality of Life at Skeletal Maturity. Spine Deform 7, 1012–1013 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jspd.2019.09.017
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