The effect of growth hormone treatment on height in children with idiopathic short stature. J Pediatr Endocrinol Metab 2014; 27:629e33.Jeong H R,Shim Y S,Lee H S,et al.The effect of growthhormone treatment on height in children with idiopathicshort stature[J]. J Pediatr Endocrinol ...
BACKGROUND: Growth hormone treatment stimulates growth in short children with chronic renal failure. However, the extent to which this therapy increases final adult height is not known. METHODS: We followed 38 initially prepubertal children with chronic renal failure treated with growth hormone for a...
Can HGH increase your height after age 21? Human growth hormone only makes children taller. Once the growth plates in a child's bones have fused, HGH stops working in this way. HGH Abuse The most common uses for HGH are not FDA-approved. Still, some people get HGH shots from doctors ...
Background: Short-term administration of growth hormone to children with idiopathic short stature results in increases in growth rate and standard-deviation scores for height. However, the effect of long-term growth hormone therapy on adult height in these children is unknown. Methods: We studied ...
Growth Hormone Stimulation Testing in Both Short and Normal Statured Children: Use of an Immunofunctional Assay NELLY MAURAS, PAUL WALTON, MICHAEL NICAR, SUSAN WELCH, AND ALAN D. ROGOL Nemours Children's Clinic and Research Programs, 807 Nira St., Jacksonville, Florida 32207, U.S.A. [N.M...
Growth hormone (GH) research and its clinical application for the treatment of growth disorders span more than a century. During the first half of the 20th century, clinical observations and anatomical and biochemical studies formed the basis of the understanding of the structure of GH and its va...
Growth hormone (GH) research and its clinical application for the treatment of growth disorders span more than a century. During the first half of the 20th century, clinical observations and anatomical and biochemical studies formed the basis of the understanding of the structure of GH and its va...
These data were the reference against which subsequent Japanese achondroplasia populations treated with growth hormone and/or limb lengthening were compared [17, 18]. More recently, Hoover-Fong et al. published weight-for-age [5], body mass index (BMI) [6] and height-for-age curves [4] ...
At the end of the treatment year seven of the 16 treated children had developed antibodies to growth hormone, but they were present in low titre with low binding capacity and in no child was growth attenuated. Biosynthetic growth hormone improved the height velocity of children growing along or...
GuydaHPediatric ResearchGuyda, H (1993) Final height attainment in normal chidren with short stature treated with growth hormone: international task force report. Pediatr Res 33: pp. 43Guyda, H (1993) Final height attainment in normal children with short stature treated with growth hormone. ...