GH deficiency and diabetes

15 Jul 2013


A lot of scientific and media interest followed a report that growth hormone (GH) deficiency may protect against the development of diabetes mellitus. The main limitation of said study was the reliance on self-reporting for diabetes. Vicente and colleagues used fasting glucose and the oral glucose tolerance test in a cohort of untreated isolated GH deficient individuals to demonstrate that GH deficiency is associated with increased insulin sensitivity, impaired β-cell function and does not protect against diabetes.

Read the full article in Vicente et al (2013) Endocrine Connections 2; 112–117; DOI: 10.1530/EC-13-0014.


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