Abstract
Official Journal of the Endocrine Society of Sri Lanka. The Sri Lanka Journal of Diabetes Endocrinology and Metabolism (SJDEM) publishes original research articles, reviews, and other special features related to diabetes, endocrinology and metabolism in humans and human tissue.
Highlights
Use of growth hormone therapy (GHT) in adolescents is not common in Sri Lanka
In this report we present data on 21 adolescents attending our endocrine clinic who were treated with growth hormone therapy for short stature
21 adolescents who were treated with recombinant growth hormone therapy for short stature attending the Endocrine Clinic of the University Medical Unit of National Hospital of Sri Lanka were studied
Summary
Use of growth hormone therapy (GHT) in adolescents is not common in Sri Lanka. In this study we aimed to assess the response to GHT in adolescents in our setting presenting with short stature. Short stature is a distressing problem for the affected children or adolescents or their families. It is defined as height more than 2 standard deviations below the mean or below the 3rd percentile for age, sex and ethnicity [1]. A study carried out in 1991 in Sri Lanka showed that out of 16,001 children screened for short stature 172 were identified as short out of which 12 children were diagnosed to have growth hormone deficiency by provocative testing [4]
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