The Importance of Understanding Partial Growth Hormone Deficiency

There's a big question as to what partial growth hormone deficiency is, basically, how it should be defined and whether it really exists. With somebody with an acquired growth hormone deficiency, you want to make sure that there's not a tumor in there or some sort of infiltrative disease. In the United States, we use this cutoff to test of 10 to define growth hormone deficiency. But that's really including a lot of kids who just don't have growth hormones deficiency.