Growth hormone significantly increases the adult height of children with idiopathic short stature: comparison of subgroups and benefit

BACKGROUND: Children with Idiopathic Short Stature do not attain a normal adult height. The improvement of adult height with treatment with recombinant human growth hormone (rhGH), at doses of 0.16 to 0.28 mg/kg/week is modest, usually less that 4 cm, and they remain short as adults. The benefit obt...

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Autores principales: Sotos, Juan F, Tokar, Naomi J
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2014
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Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4114101/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25075207
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1687-9856-2014-15

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4114101/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25075207
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1687-9856-2014-15

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