hrp0086p2-p683 | Growth P2 | ESPE2016

Bone Health Index: A Potential Discriminator between Growth Hormone Deficiency and Constitutional Delay in Growth and Puberty in Adolescent Children

Patil Prashant , Dharmaraj Poonam , Povall Ann , Abernethy Laurence , Das Urmi , Didi Mohommed , Ramkrishnan Renuka , Senniappan Senthil , Blair Jo

Background: Constitutional delay in growth and puberty (CDGP), the most common cause of short stature in children, is a transient state of delayed growth, skeletal maturation and attenuated pubertal growth spurt. It is not always easy to differentiate from GH deficiency (GHD) even with robust clinical and auxological assessment, measurement of IGF1 and bone age evaluation Bone health index (BHI) is a quantitative measure of bone health calculated from a hand and wrist X-ray us...