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Risk of hypoglycaemia with alternate-day growth hormone injections
Lancet (London, England)
|May 2, 1987
Abstract:
Fasting hypoglycaemia developed in three growth hormone deficient children after the start of treatment with synthetic growth hormone. The effects, which occurred 36-60 h after each injection, may have been due to insulin-like effects of endogenous somatomedins after waning of insulin antagonism induced by growth hormone. Daily growth hormone injections may be necessary to maintain normal plasma glucose levels in young children.