Comparing the efficacy and safety of weekly somatrogon with daily somatropin to treat children with growth hormone deficiency: a plain language summary of publication

Abstract

• The efficacy of weekly somatrogon injections was no different from that of daily somatropin injections to treat children who don’t make enough growth hormone to grow adequately. ○ Efficacy refers to how well a drug works in a clinical trial. ○ Children treated with weekly somatrogon had an increased growth rate, similar to that of children treated with daily somatropin . • The safety of weekly somatrogon injections was similar to that of daily somatropin injections. The original scientific article on which this summary is based was published in The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism and can be accessed for free at: https://academic.oup.com/jcem/article/107/7/e2717/6566444 . The details of the original article are as follows: Cheri L. Deal, Joel Steelman, Elpis Vlachopapadopoulou, Renata Stawerska, Lawrence A Silverman, Moshe Phillip, Ho-Seong Kim, CheolWoo Ko, Oleg Malievskiy, Jose F. Cara, Carl L. Roland, Carrie Turich Taylor, Srinivas Rao Valluri, Michael P. Wajnrajch, Aleksandra Pastrak, and Bradley S. Miller. Efficacy and safety of weekly somatrogon vs daily somatropin in children with growth hormone deficiency: a phase 3 study. J Clin Endocrinol Metab 2022; 107(7): e2717–e2728. The purpose of this plain language summary is to help you to understand the findings from recent research. • Somatrogon is used to treat growth hormone deficiency (the condition under study that is discussed in this summary). Approval varies by country; please check with your local healthcare provider for more details. • The results of this study may differ from those of other studies. Physicians/providers should make treatment decisions based on all available evidence and not on the results of a single study.