National Cooperative Growth Study

National Cooperative Growth Study (NCGS) is the largest observational database in the U.S. of children with growth disorders. Started in 1985, NCGS is a long term longitudinal study following patients undergoing growth hormone treatment in North America (the U.S. and Canada). The study is ongoing and has over 500 clinical investigators and approximately 200,000 patient years of statistical data collected.

Sources

• ClinicalTrials.gov NCT00097539