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Growth Hormone Treatment in Growth Hormone-Sufficient and -Insufficient Children with Intrauterine Growth Retardation/Russell-Silver Syndrome
1 Jan 1998
Abstract excerpt
Fifty-eight short prepubertal children with IUGR received GH treatment (mean dose: 28 IU/m2/week) for a mean (SEM) period of time of 3.4 (0.13) years (range 1-4 years). They were subdivided according to their GH response to a pharmacological test. Twenty-six were GH insufficient (GHI) (group 1) and 32 were non-GHI (group 2). At the commencement of GH therapy mean chronological age was 6.1 (0.4) years in both...
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