Treatment of Growth Hormone Deficiency With a Sustained-Release Growth Hormone Formulation • 462
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Efficacy and Safety of Sustained-Release Recombinant Human Growth Hormone in Korean Adults with Growth Hormone Deficiency
PURPOSE The administration of recombinant human growth hormone in adults with growth hormone deficiency has been known to improve metabolic impairment and quality of life. Patients, however, have to tolerate daily injections of growth hormone. The efficacy, safety, and compliance of weekly administered sustained-release recombinant human growth hormone (SR-rhGH, Declage™) supplement in patients...
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BACKGROUND The Growth Hormone Research Society held a Consensus Workshop in Sydney, Australia, in March 2007 to review advances in the management of growth hormone (GH) deficiency in adults and to update consensus recommendations. OBJECTIVE This short review summarizes key background information presented at the workshop and the consensus recommendations that followed. CONCLUSIONS The benef...
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Pharmacological treatment of growth hormone deficiency (GHD) in adults began in clinical practice more than 20 years ago. Since then, a great volume of experience has been accumulated on its effects on the symptoms and biochemical alterations that characterize this hormonal deficiency. The effects on body composition, muscle mass and strength, exercise capacity, glucose and lipid profile, bone ...
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The effect of recombinant human growth hormone (rhGH) treatment on the quality of life was studied in adults with growth hormone deficiency (GHD). Twenty-four adults who satisfied strict criteria for GHD took part in a double-blind, placebo-controlled, 6-month trial. 'Quality of life' assessment was performed at entry into the trial and after 1 month and 6 months, by means of self-rating questi...
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After recombinant human growth hormone (rhGH) was introduced in the treatment of patients with growth hormone deficiency (GHD) and idiopathic short stature (ISS), many studies have addressed the effect of GH treatment and changes in the height standard deviation score (SDS) after GH treatment. However, few studies comparing the effect of GH in Korean patients with idiopathic GHD and ISS have be...
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عنوان ژورنال: Pediatric Research
سال: 1998
ISSN: 0031-3998,1530-0447
DOI: 10.1203/00006450-199804001-00483