There is an association between prenatal growth retardation and male pseudohermaphroditism which may be due to genetic factors not clarified yet or to environmental factors which act early in gestation.
The replacement doses of rhGH during 12 months in a selected group of CRF children determined an increment in IGF-1 and IGFBP-3, associated to normal serum leptin and insulin resistance.
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