incidence of idiopathic ghd in infants is about 1 in every 3800 live births, and rates in older children are rising as more children survive childhood cancers which are treated with radiotherapy, although exact rates are hard to obtain. the incidence of genuine adult-onset ghd, normally due to pituitary tumours, is estimated at 10 per million. history like many other 19th century medical terms which lost precise meaning as they gained wider currency, "midget" as a term for someone with severe proportional shortness acquired pejorative connotations and is no longer used in a medical context. notable modern pop cultural figures with growth hormone deficiency include actor and comedian andy milonakis, who has the appearance and voice of an adolescent boy despite being in his 40s. argentine footballer lionel messi was diagnosed at age 10 with growth hormone deficiency and was subsequently treated. tlc reality star shauna rae was effected by a medically-caused growth hormone deficiency resulting from childhood glioblastoma cancer treatment. oscar winning actress linda hunt was diagnosed as having this condition when a teenager.