Endocrine Abstracts

Background: Hypopituitary patients with untreated growth hormone deficiency (GHD) have increased fat mass, dyslipidaemia and insulin resistance. Inappropriately low thyroxine doses in patients with central hypothyroidism (CH) may also promote such clinical features.Objective: To examine metabolic outcome of thyroxine replacement in hypopituitary patients before and after GH replacement.Method: One thousand and six hundred and two p...

Of the ~12 500 GH treated subjects with adult-onset GH deficiency (GHD) in KIMS (Pfizer International Metabolic Database), 3744 with multiple pituitary hormone deficiencies (MPHD) and 367 (9%) with isolated GHD (iGHD) were eligible for baseline analysis. Subjects met the following inclusion criteria: 1) never received GH prior to entry in KIMS, 2) had stimulation tests with insulin or glucagon (GH<3 μg/l), arginine (GH<0.4 μg/l), or arginine+GHRH (cut-offs ba...