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ey0018.4-7 | Growth Hormone Therapy: Safety | ESPEYB18

4.7. Association of childhood growth hormone treatment with long-term cardiovascular morbidity

A Tidblad , M Bottai , H Kieler , K Albertsson-Wikland , L Savendahl

JAMA Pediatr. 2021;175(2):e205199. doi: 10.1001/jamapediatrics.2020.5199. PMID: 33346824This nationwide population-based study assessed the long-term risk of cardiovascular events in patients who had received rhGH therapy during childhood and adolescence. The study cohort comprised 3.408 subjects treated under the GHD, SGA or ISS indications, and 50 036 age-, sex-, and region-base...

ey0018.4-6 | Growth Hormone Therapy: Safety | ESPEYB18

4.6. Long-term mortality after childhood growth hormone treatment: the SAGhE cohort study

L Savendahl , R Cooke , A Tidblad , D Beckers , G Butler , S Cianfarani , P Clayton , J Coste , ACS Hokken-Koelega , W Kiess , CE Kuehni , K Albertsson-Wikland , A Deodati , E Ecosse , R Gausche , C Giacomozzi , D Konrad , F Landier , R Pfaeffle , G Sommer , M Thomas , S Tollerfield , GRJ Zandwijken , JC Carel , AJ Swerdlow

Lancet Diabetes Endocrinol. 2020;8(8):683–692. doi: 10.1016/S2213-8587(20)30163-7. PMID: 32707116SAGhE is a large independent European consortium including eight different countries (Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, The Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland, and the UK) which was set up to evaluate the long-term safety of rhGH in a large cohort (>24 000) of young adult patients t...