A single growth hormone (GH) determination is sufficient for the diagnosis of GH‐deficiency in adult patients using the growth hormone releasing hormone plus growth hormone releasing peptide‐6 test - Concepedia

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A single growth hormone (GH) determination is sufficient for the diagnosis of GH‐deficiency in adult patients using the growth hormone releasing hormone plus growth hormone releasing peptide‐6 test

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2002

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Alfonso Leal, Mary Lage, Vera Popović, E. Torres, H. P. F. Koppeschaar, C. Páramo, Dragan Micić, Ricardo V. García‐Mayor, Carlos Diéguez, Felipe F. Casanueva

Clinical Endocrinology

Abstract

The GHRH + GHRP-6 test is a convenient, safe and reliable, provocative test of GH reserve in adults, which can be reduced to a single fixed GH determination 30 minutes after stimulus.

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