24-hour Blood Glucose Monitoring in Diabetes Mellitus

Abstract

Evaluation of long t e r n growth response to hGH treatment. The growth velocity (GV, cm/y) Induced by hGH treatment was evaluated i n 85 h(;H deficient patients classified i n t o 4 groups. Gr. A: Isolated hGH deflclency (IGHD), males, n-22; age a t s t a r t o f therapy (age): 0.8-19.6 (~9. 6~). Gr. B: IGHD, females, n= 19; age 0.4-16.9 y (mm8.6 yf. Gr. C: Multiple p i t u i t a r y h o m n e deficiencies (MPHD). males, n-30; age 1.3-21.4 y (r11.7 y). Gr. D: MPHD, females, n. 14; age 2.5-18.3 y (~1 0. 3 y). Followup ranged from 1-12 y with actual treatment amountlng t o 40-601 o f the tlme. Treatment was given I n courses o f 3-24 months. 2-6 Ux3/wk with intervals o f 2-14 mos. The regresslon equation o f GV (cm/y) as a function o f age and age2 was calculated using program BKIPPR (Dixon & Brown, 1979). The2fonnula i s : GV = K1 + K2 x Age + K3 (Age-12.5) K1 K2 K3 roUP