title: [Growth hormone response to insulin-induced hypoglycaemia in children with normal stature or normal variant short stature].
abstract: Definition of normal values of growth hormone (GH) during insulin-induced hypoglycaemia was based on experience in a group of 30 pre-pubertal children (age range 6.4-16.8 years) with normal stature or with normal variant short stature. The growth velocity was calculated in all children. The maximal GH values to insulin-induced hypoglycaemia and the mean GH levels of a 12 hours nocturnal period (sampled at 30-min intervals from 8 p.m. to 8 a.m. hours) were also determinated. In a group of 13 children with normal or short stature and normal growth velocity it was established that the GH response in blood higher than 20 mlU/l (10 ng/ml) represents lower limit of normal range and excludes the possibility of GH deficiency. Comparisons of the maximal values of GH to insulin-induced hypoglycaemia and mean GH levels during twelve-hour nocturnal period in a group of seventeen short normal children suggested that GH responses to insulin-induced hypoglycaemia between 15 - 20 mlU/l also most frequently represent normal endogenous secretion of GH.
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Zdravković
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Banićević
authors.forename: Z
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Subotić
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Maksimović
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D001827:Body Height; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D019382:Human Growth Hormone / Q000097:blood* / Q000172:deficiency; D006801:Humans; D007003:Hypoglycemia / Q000097:blood* / Q000139:chemically induced; D007328:Insulin; D008297:Male
chemical_list: D007328:Insulin; D019382:Human Growth Hormone