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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...
Autores principales: | Cutfield, Wayne S., Derraik, José G. B., Gunn, Alistair J., Reid, Kyle, Delany, Theresa, Robinson, Elizabeth, Hofman, Paul L. |
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Formato: | Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Public Library of Science
2011
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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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