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ENDOCRINE JOURNAL
Volume 53, Issue 4, Pages 479-484Publisher
JAPAN ENDOCRINE SOC
DOI: 10.1507/endocrj.K05-167
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ghrelin; IGF-I; IGFBP-3; short stature; children
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This study is planned to investigate the role of ghrelin in normal variant short stature. Serum ghrelin, IGF-I and IGFBP-3 levels were measured in 17 children with constitutional delay of growth, 19 children with familial short stature and I I age matched healthy children. Mean bone age of the constitutional delay of growth group was lower compared to other groups. Constitutional delay of growth group had lower mean weight compared to the controls. Serum IGF-I values were lower in the constitutional delay of growth group compared to the familial short stature and control groups. IGFBP-3 levels of the groups were similar. Ghrelin levels were higher in the short stature groups compared to the controls. In the multiple regression analyses, weight (P = -.54, p < 0.0001) and height SDS (P = -.33, p = 0.01) were the independent determinants of ghrelin. The results of this study, the first one in which ghrelin levels are investigated in normal variant short stature, suggest that ghrelin does not play a role as a cause, but as a consequence in these patients because it is negatively correlated with weight and height standard deviation score. These negative correlations can be attributed to the compensatory response of ghrelin, which deserves further attention in future studies.
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