Growth hormone therapy for children born small for gestational age: Height gain is less dose dependent over the long term than over the short term

Pediatrics

Volumn 115, Issue 4, 2005, Pages

  De Zegher, Francis ^a,c   Hokken Koelega, Anita ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Adult height; Growth; Growth hormone; Intrauterine growth retardation; Short stature; Small for gestational age

Indexed keywords

GROWTH HORMONE; HUMAN GROWTH HORMONE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY SIZE; CHILD; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG DOSE REGIMEN; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG MEGADOSE; DRUG SAFETY; FEMALE; FRANCE; GERMANY; GROWTH ACCELERATION; GROWTH RATE; HUMAN; LONG TERM CARE; LOW DRUG DOSE; MALE; META ANALYSIS; MULTICENTER STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SHORT COURSE THERAPY; SHORT STATURE; SMALL FOR DATE INFANT; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT RESPONSE; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT; WEIGHT GAIN; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; GROWTH; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; NEWBORN; PRESCHOOL CHILD;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BODY HEIGHT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FEMALE; GROWTH; HUMAN GROWTH HORMONE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, SMALL FOR GESTATIONAL AGE; MALE;

EID: 22544440483     PISSN: 00314005     EISSN: 00314005     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1542/peds.2004-1934     Document Type: Article

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