The dawn phenomenon is related to overnight growth hormone release in adolescent diabetics.
We have investigated the relation between nocturnal insulin requirements and nocturnal growth hormone (GH) release in 26 diabetic adolescents at various puberty stages and have examined the effect of nocturnal GH suppression on pre-breakfast insulin requirement. In all the studies, euglycaemia was m...
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| Format: | Journal article |
| Language: | English |
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1990
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