ESPE Abstracts

Objective and hypotheses: The purpose of this research is to establish reference intervals for the steroid hormones of 6 to14 year-old normal male children using LC-MS method; study the variation pattern of steroid hormones in terms of different ages and Tanner stages of puberty.Method: A total of 1175 male children from 6 to 14 years old from Shunyi District, Beijing, have participated in this research, with 820 children determined as normal-weight. Pre...