Children with Normal-Variant Short Stature: Treatment with Human Growth Hormone for Six Months
- 16 July 1981
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 305 (3) , 123-131
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm198107163050302
Abstract
Children with normal-variant short stature can be classified into four subgroups by measuring their anabolic and growth reactions to a 10-day course of human growth hormone. In Subgroup 1 there is no anabolic or growth reaction; in Subgroup 2 there is a weak anabolic reaction but no growth; Subgroups 3 and 4 have both reactions but Subgroup 4 is more responsive than Subgroup 3.This publication has 12 references indexed in Scilit:
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