Key result
Growth hormone therapy shows no benefit in heart failure clinical trials despite experimental improvements.
Why the study?
Does growth hormone therapy improve outcomes in patients with heart failure?
Does growth hormone therapy improve outcomes in patients with heart failure?
Despite promising experimental data, growth hormone therapy has not shown benefit in short-term clinical trials for heart failure, warranting further investigation.
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Does not support growth hormone therapy in heart failure; leaves open benefit in larger, longer trials.
Demers et al. (2003) conducted a review in Heart failure. Growth hormone therapy was evaluated. Growth hormone therapy has shown improvements in cardiac function in experimental models, but small, short-term randomized clinical trials have demonstrated a lack of benefit in heart failure.
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