Alzheimer's passed to patients by human growth hormone taken from corpses
Five people treated with tainted human growth hormone found to have developed symptoms of the disease despite being aged just 38 to 55
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Five people treated with tainted human growth hormone found to have developed symptoms of the disease despite being aged just 38 to 55
The findings may have important implications for understanding and treating the disease, researchers say.
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.