Growth hormone therapy improves cognition in children with Prader–Willi syndrome
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Growth hormone therapy in children with Prader-Willi syndrome.
Prader-Willi syndrome (PWS) is a chromosomal disorder and growth failure is a common presentation. Growth hormone (GH) treatment is beneficial in PWS although the optimal age for starting GH is unknown. We investigated whether GH response in PWS was associated with the age of GH commencement by comparing 16 children who commenced GH before 3 years of age (early group) with 40 children who comme...
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عنوان ژورنال: Nature Reviews Endocrinology
سال: 2012
ISSN: 1759-5029,1759-5037
DOI: 10.1038/nrendo.2012.73