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At diagnosis and after 12, 24, 36, and 48 months of treatment, a clinical (height, weight, and bone age) and laboratory (phosphorus, calcium, calcidiol, PTH, IGF-1) evaluation was performed. Concurrently, 377 healthy children, aged 3.8\u20139.7 years, were enrolled and constituted a control group. Vitamin D status was stated in accordance to the U.S. Endocrine Society criteria. Results. No significant differences were found in the prevalence of vitamin D deficiency among control (11.43%) and GHD (13.6%) groups at the moment of diagnosis, remaining without significant changes at 12 (12.9%), 24 (14.6%), 36 (13.1%), and 48 months (13.3%) of treatment. There were not any significant differences in serum levels of calcium, phosphorus, and calcidiol, but a steady increase (p &lt; 0.001) in PTH was detected. Conclusions. Prepubertal patients with GH deficient do not appear to have a higher risk of vitamin D deficiency than healthy subjects, and with treatment with rhGH, no changes in the organic content of vitamin D were observed although a significant increase in PTH levels was detected.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/children9050725","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,5,15]],"date-time":"2022-05-15T09:48:22Z","timestamp":1652608102000},"page":"725","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":5,"title":["Vitamin D and Parathyroid Hormone during Growth Hormone Treatment"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"9","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-4628-2213","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Teodoro","family":"Dur\u00e1-Trav\u00e9","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Pediatrics, School of Medicine, University of Navarra, Avenue Irunlarrea 1, 31008 Pamplona, Spain"},{"name":"Department of Pediatrics, Navarra Hospital Complex, 31008 Pamplona, Spain"},{"name":"Navarrabiomed (Biomedical Research Center), Health Department, Government of Navarra, 31008 Pamplona, Spain"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Fidel","family":"Gallinas-Victoriano","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Pediatrics, Navarra Hospital Complex, 31008 Pamplona, Spain"},{"name":"Navarrabiomed (Biomedical Research Center), Health Department, Government of Navarra, 31008 Pamplona, Spain"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,5,15]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"715","DOI":"10.2106\/00004623-200304000-00021","article-title":"The biology of the growth plate","volume":"85","author":"Ballock","year":"2003","journal-title":"J. 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