Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: There is only few data on metabolic syndrome occurrence in young patients with childhood-onset GH deficiency (CO-GHD), especially its partial form.Aim: The aim of this study was the assessment of the metabolic syndrome criteria (according to IDF 2007) occurrence in adolescents and young adults with CO-GHD and evaluation of their correlations with the degree of GH/IGF-1 axis function impairment.Subjects and methods: Th...