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...

Beta-blockers (BB) may be less effective than other antihypertensive drugs for stroke prevention in patients with primary hypertension (ASCOT and LIFE studies). Our study compares arterial stiffness and central PP between users (BB+) and non users of BB (BB-), among menopausal women with hypercholesterolemia and no history of CV disease.Methods and Results: We used the baseline data of 664 menopausal women, screened for the Cashmere study, a12-month doub...