Endocrine Abstracts

The GH response to standard provocative tests is significantly lower in adult patients with Prader–Willi syndrome (PWS) than obese controls with similar body mass index (BMI). Nevertheless, BMI is an inadequate measure of body composition in PWS, because PWS harbour a higher fat mass than simple obesity, under the same degree of weight excess. This study evaluated either the GH response to combined GHRH+arginine administration and the fat body mass, by dual energy X-ray a...