Growth hormone deficiency and replacement in adults
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Growth hormone replacement therapy in adults with growth hormone deficiency; thrice weekly low dose administration.
Recent reports on growth hormone (GH) therapy have shown that GH has various beneficial effects in GH deficient adults. In most of these studies, GH was administered daily. Because GH is still expensive and has to be delivered by subcutaneous injection, we studied the 6-month therapeutic effects of thrice weekly GH injection therapy and compared it with daily therapy. Twenty eight adult patient...
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عنوان ژورنال: BMJ
سال: 1996
ISSN: 0959-8138,1468-5833
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.313.7053.314