ESPE Abstracts

Background: Glucagon stimulation test (GST) is used to assess growth hormone (GH) and cortisol reserves in children being investigated for GH deficiency, as a small percentage of children with idiopathic GH deficiency can also exhibit deficiency in the adrenocorticotrophic hormone (ACTH)-cortisol axis. However, the extent of normal cortisol response after glucagon stimulation and its associations with clinical and laboratory parameters have not been thoroughly...

Background and Hypothesis: Autoimmune thyroid disorders (AITD), including Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis (HT) and Grave’s disease (GD), are known to cluster with other autoimmune disorders (AID). There seem to exist both a pathophysiological basis of immunomodulator genes and epidemiological indications of a higher prevalence of AID including Celiac disease (CeD) in patients with AITD, compared to that in the healthy pediatric population. CeD is asymptomatic in a large prop...