Researchers find tie between banned growth hormone and Alzheimer's | Health
The hormone known as c-hGH was used to treat at least 1,848 people of short stature in the UK between 1959 and 1985.
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The hormone known as c-hGH was used to treat at least 1,848 people of short stature in the UK between 1959 and 1985.
The findings may have important implications for understanding and treating the disease, researchers say.
Five of eight British children who received human growth hormone from the pituitary glands of deceased donors went on to develop early-onset Alzheimer's disease many decades later, researchers report.
The findings may have important implications for understanding and treating Alzheimer’s disease, researchers say.
Hormones, taken from dead donors between 1959 and 1985, were used to treat people with growth conditions in the UK before synthetic growth hormones were introduced.