Source: DGNews  |  Posted 8 years ago

By Alison Palkhivala

LYON, FRANCE -- April 29, 2003 -- Use of recombinant human growth hormone in adults with growth hormone deficiency increases lean body mass and decreases fat mass, according to a randomised trial.

Dr. Rolf-Christian Gaillard, from the Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois, Lausanne, Switzerland, and colleagues from the Adult Growth Hormone Deficiency (AGHD) Study Group performed a two-phase clinical trial examining the effects of recombinant human growth hormone on body composition in adults with growth hormone deficiency.

Dr. Gaillard presented the results in a poster here on April 29th at the 6th European Congress of Endocrinology.

For the first phase of the trial, 115 adults who had acquired or idiopathic growth hormone deficiency for at least 2 years were randomised to treatment with the recombinant human growth hormone Saizen