[Plasma levels of HGH, insulin and NEFA in diabetic children (author's transl)].

: Plasmatic levels of HGH, insulin and NEFA are measured after oral glucose loading in 14 diabetic children and are compared with those obtained in 7 normal children. The average values of HGH are higher in the diabetics at 0', 30', 60', and 190', and on the contrary the release of HGH which is produced at 90' and 120' with a glucose load is increased in the normal controls. None of these differences are significant. The insulin and NEFA response observed in the normal cases is not observed in the diabetics where the obtained values do not show variation with the administration of glucose.