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These investigators from Baystate Children’s Hospital in Springfield, Mass; Manchester, UK; Gothenburg, Sweden; and Tubingen, Germany conducted an analysis of data from 1,258 children with growth hormone deficiency to determine how final adult height compared with midparental height. The data were abstracted from the Pfizer International Growth Database, also known as KIGS. Of the 1,258 patients evaluated, 980 were of multinational Caucasian origin and 278 were of Japanese origin. There were 747 children with a diagnosis of isolated growth hormone deficiency (IGHD); the remaining 511 had a diagnosis of multiple pituitary hormone deficiency (MPHD). Children were treated for at least 4 years and had at least 1 …
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