Endocrine Abstracts

Approximately 650 000 children born in the UK each year, using a definition of a birth weight less than 2 S.D. 14 950 children are born SGA. 90% of these children will experience catch up growth by the age of 4 years leaving around 1500 children eligible for treatment with recombinant human growth hormone. Data from the BSPED audit in 2016 recorded 177 children started on GH at a mean age of 6.2 years – all of these children will have been short at 4 years ...

The pituitary gland is the master gland controlling many other hormone secreting organs.The gland lies within the sella turcica at the base of the brain to which it is attached by the pituitary stalk or infundibulum. Lactotrophs, somatotrophs, thyrotrophs, corticotrophs and gonadotrophs in the anterior pituitary gland secrete the polypeptide hormones prolactin (PRL), growth hormone (GH), thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH), adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH) and luteinizing (LH)...