A Research Study of How Well Macimorelin Works to Find Out if Children Have a Lack of Growth Hormone and How Safe it is
Status:
Recruiting
Trial end date:
2022-07-01
Target enrollment:
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Summary
This research study will find out if a new growth hormone stimulation test is safe and works
as well as other tests to diagnose growth hormone deficiency (GHD) in children. The
stimulation test will use a new growth hormone stimulating substance called macimorelin. By
now, only adults in the USA can get this new stimulation test. The results of this study are
expected to help children and teenagers with suspected GHD to get the macimorelin stimulation
test.
The macimorelin test will be compared to a clonidine and an arginine test. Both are known
standard stimulation tests. Altogether two macimorelin tests are planned to be performed in
the study, to show how repeatable macimorelin tests results are (under a set of similar
conditions).