TY - JOUR
AU - Root, Allen W.
AB - 0021-972X/98/$03.00/0 Vol. 83, No. 4 Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism Printed in U.S.A. Copyright © 1998 by The Endocrine Society Editorial: Does Growth Hormone Have a Role in the Management of Children with Nongrowth Hormone Deficient Short Stature and Intrauterine Growth Retardation? The effectiveness of recombinant human growth hormone been the heterogeneity of this group of children. Ranke (4) (rhGH) in increasing adult stature in non-GH deficient sub- has proposed criteria to categorize a child as one with “id- jects has been the subject of inconclusive discussion for many iopathic short stature” (Table 1); if widely accepted this des- years, primarily because of the paucity of data on the final ignation would lead to some consistency between investi- height of rhGH-treated short subjects. In this issue of JCEM, gators, although the data of Buchlis et al. (1) would then be two papers address this subject. Buchlis et al. (1) (see JCEM biased because children with normal growth rates were ex- p. 1075) report the adult (or near adult) stature of 36 (6 cluded from their study. Reckers-Mombarg et al. (5) have females) normal short subjects [normal size at birth, height constructed growth curves for children with idiopathic short 
TI - Does Growth Hormone Have a Role in the Management of Children with Nongrowth Hormone Deficient Short Stature and Intrauterine Growth Retardation?
JF - Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism
DO - 10.1210/jcem.83.4.4786
DA - 1998-04-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/does-growth-hormone-have-a-role-in-the-management-of-children-with-tqXRWR64le
SP - 1067
EP - 1069
VL - 83
IS - 4
DP - DeepDyve
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