ESPE Abstracts

Background: IGF1 is an important marker of GH treatment and is used to titrate the GH dose.Objective and hypotheses: We report the correlation between the GH treatment induced increase in IGF1 and growth improvement in short children born small for gestational age (SGA).Method: We recruited 13 pre-pubertal SGA children (eight boys, five girls) who received GH treatment. Eight continued treatment for >2 years. We retrospectively...