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[...]perhaps, to invert a Runsfeldianism, we also know more about what we don’t know… and the breadth of this month’s manuscripts testify to this UK reference data ( see page 613 ), global health implications ( see page 616 and the WHO group, see page 620 ), the arguments around school closure ( see page 618 ), the disappearance of children from emergency departments ( see page 704 ) and (and this is unexpectedly dystopian) the implications for chronic disease management using inflammatory bowel disease as an example ( see page 706 ). Linear growth There’s a long held perception that skeletal growth rate has a more or less linear relationship with skeletal maturity, itself measurable by a number of radiological techniques based on extent of ossification. High-sensitivity C reactive protein was measured at three points in time (13, 17 and 21 years) and categorised in tertiles separately for each wave;chronic low-grade inflammation in adolescence was defined as having hs-CRP levels in the highest tertile in at least two waves.