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Growth hormone treatment of Canadian children: results from the GeNeSIS phase IV prospective observational study.
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The Genetics and Neuroendocrinology of Short Stature International Study (GeNeSIS)
Who cites it
12 citing papers in PubMed, 18 citations in OpenAlex.
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- History and Current Status of Growth Hormone Treatment in Children.Paediatric drugs · 2025Article
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- Optimizing paediatric specialist referrals for short stature in an era of multiple growth hormone indications.Paediatrics & child health · 2024Article
- Early GH Treatment Is Effective and Well Tolerated in Children With Turner Syndrome: NordiNet® IOS and Answer Program.The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism · 2023Article
- Height outcomes in Korean children with idiopathic short stature receiving growth hormone treatment.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2022Article
- Short-term efficacy and safety of a lower dose of polyethylene glycol recombinant human growth hormone in children with growth hormone deficiency: A randomized, dose-comparison study.Frontiers in pharmacology · 2022Article
- Changes, limitations, and prospects of adult height in GH treatment for Japanese GHD patients.Clinical pediatric endocrinology : case reports and clinical investigations : official journal of the Japanese Society for Pediatric Endocrinology · 2022Review
- Characteristics of growth disturbances in patients with intracranial germinomas of different origins.Child's nervous system : ChNS : official journal of the International Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery · 2021Article
- Effectiveness and Overall Safety of NutropinAqFrontiers in endocrinology · 2021Article
- Impact of BMI on peak growth hormone responses to provocative tests and therapeutic outcome in children with growth hormone deficiency.Scientific reports · 2019Observational
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10 authors at 4 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
backgroundCountry-specific data on outcomes of treatment with recombinant human growth hormone are lacking. We present such data for children treated with growth hormone in Canada.
methodsWe describe characteristics and outcomes of 850 children (mean age at baseline 8.5 yr) treated with growth hormone constituting the Canadian cohort of the multinational phase IV prospective observational Genetics and Neuroendocrinology of Short-stature International Study (GeNeSIS). The diagnosis associated with short stature was as determined by the investigator. Auxological data were evaluated yearly until near-adult height. Adverse events were assessed in all growth-hormone-treated patients.
resultsThe diagnosis ascribed as the cause of short stature was growth hormone deficiency in 526 children (61.9%), predominantly organic rather than idiopathic, particularly congenital pituitary abnormalities and intracranial tumours. All diagnostic groups with sufficient patients for analysis had increased height velocity standard deviation score (SDS) and height SDS during growth hormone treatment. For patients who reached near-adult height (
interpretationGrowth hormone treatment was effective and had a good safety profile in Canadian children. Growth hormone dosages were lower than in the US and global GeNeSIS cohorts, and a greater proportion of treated Canadian children had organic growth hormone deficiency. STUDY REGISTRATION: ClinicalTrials.gov, no. NCT01088412.
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