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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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| Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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BioMed Central
2014
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| 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 |