197 GROWTH HORMONE SECRETION IN CONSTITUTIONAL DELAY OF 197 GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT (CD)

Recently growth hormone (GH) treatment of patients with CD has been advocated because of insufficient GH secretion during sleep. We intended to prove these findings by comparing GH secretion during spontaneous sleep between 8 p.m. and 2 a.m. every 30 min and EEG controlled sleep during the first slow wave sleep (SWS) at night every 10 min.