Endocrine Abstracts

We have used a sensitive chemiluminescence GH assay to analyse 24-hour GH profiles (20 minute sampling) from 11 adult cancer survivors with severe GH deficiency acquired following brain irradiation in childhood for non-pituitary brain tumours and 30 matched healthy normal volunteers. Cluster analysis revealed that the area under the curve for GH (AUCGH), absolute (maximum) GH peak height, mean peak height, maximum pulse area, mean pulse area, absolute (minimum) nadi...