Non-Compliance with Growth Hormone Treatment in Children Is Common and Impairs Linear Growth

BACKGROUND: GH therapy requires daily injections over many years and compliance can be difficult to sustain. As growth hormone (GH) is expensive, non-compliance is likely to lead to suboptimal growth, at considerable cost. Thus, we aimed to assess the compliance rate of children and adolescents with...

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Autores principales: Cutfield, Wayne S., Derraik, José G. B., Gunn, Alistair J., Reid, Kyle, Delany, Theresa, Robinson, Elizabeth, Hofman, Paul L.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2011
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3031542/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21305004
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0016223

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3031542/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21305004
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0016223

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