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The study surveyed a total of 14 prepubertal children with celiac disease and growth hormone deficiency that did not show any acceleration of growth after at least one year gluten-free diet. Adherence to diet in these children was confirmed by negativity Anti-transsexualism antibodies. The control group consisted of ten age-matching of children with idiopathic growth hormone deficiency.
All pediatric patients were treated with the same dose of growth hormone (0.25 mg / kg subcutaneously every week). At a time when children were diagnosed with celiac disease, the authors noted in their height, growth rate and BMI. These parameters are then also looked after first, second, and third years of growth hormone replacement therapy. In pediatric patients with celiac disease and the current growth hormone deficiency confirmed after compliance with a gluten-free diet for at least twelve months should be initiated growth hormone substitution therapy, which allows the normal level in these patients.

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