Endocrine Abstracts

As the sensitivity of a single GH test is poor, current NICE guidelines (2010) state that to make a diagnosis of isolated GH deficiency (IGHD), two stimulation tests need to show subnormal peak GH levels. In our centre we use insulin tolerance (ITT) or glucagon stimulation (GST) as the 1st test, and arginine stimulation (AST) as the 2nd test.The purpose of this study was to identify the proportion of children with discrepant test results; and to establis...