Endocrine Abstracts

Growth hormone (GH) is secreted throughout life - albeit in diminishing quantities with age. Its many different physiological actions have been known since the classical work of Maurice Raben in the late fifties. However, due to lack of the hormone, replacement therapy was for many years restricted to the pediatric treatment of growth disorder, and its place in medicine became tightly connected with growth, and growth alone. Since the mid eighties natural sequence GH have been...

Jens Sandahl Christiansen, Medical Department M, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark AbstractJens Sandahl Christiansen, MD, is professor of medicine and consultant endocrinologist at Aarhus University Hospital, Kommunehospitalet, Aarhus, Denmark. He graduated from Copenhagen University Medical School, and has been trained in diabetes and endocrinology in Copenhagen and Aarhus.Dr. Chr...