Endocrine Abstracts

While a number of studies have shown that treatment of children born small for gestational age (SGA) with continuously administered growth hormone (GH) induces a significant height improvement, this clinical trial approved by the local ethics committee investigated in a prospective way the growth response to different intermittent recombinant human GH (r-hGH, Saizen) treatment regimens over 4 years.Fifty-eight severely short (height standard deviation sc...

While a number of studies have shown that treatment of children born small for gestational age (SGA) with continuously administered growth hormone (GH) induces a significant height improvement, this clinical trial approved by the local ethics committee investigated in a prospective way the growth response to different intermittent recombinant human GH (r-hGH, Saizen) treatment regimens over 4 years.Fifty-eight severely short (height standard deviation sc...