Growth hormone treatment improves final height and nutritional status of children with chronic kidney disease and growth deceleration.

Carla BizzarriA LoneroM DelvecchioL CavalloM F FaienzaM GiordanoL Dello StrologoM Cappa

Published in: Journal of endocrinological investigation (2017)

Long-term rhGH therapy is able to reduce the linear growth deceleration of children with CKD, and ultimately to improve their final height, reducing the difference with target height.

Keyphrases

chronic kidney disease
body mass index
growth hormone
young adults
end stage renal disease
stem cells
combination therapy
smoking cessation