Reversibility of physiological growth hormone secretion in children with psychosocial dwarfism

Abstract

Our data indicate that there is abnormal physiological GH secretion in children with psychosocial deprivation, which is associated with growth failure. Despite a pathological situation, each child retained his own characteristic pattern of GH pulsatility. The pattern of reversibility of abnormal GH pulsatility provides information for the mechanism of the control of GH secretion.