Extract

Primary objective is to determine whether growth hormone therapy improves motor- performance and coordinative skills in pre-pubertal individuals with SGA as defined by efficiency of muscular function.

Inclusion criteria

• Growth disturbance (current height SDS < -2.5 and parental adjusted height SDS < -1) in short children born small for gestational age (SGA), with a birth weight and/or length below -2 SD, who failed to show catch-up growth (HV SDS < 0 during the last year) by 4 years of age or later

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• euctr
• ictrp