What will happen to a person with excessive secretion of growth hormones from the pituitary gland?


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What will happen to a person with excessive secretion of growth hormones from the pituitary gland?

  • Excessive secretion of growth hormone may cause growth abnormalities, and in children and adolescents it causes gigantism in which there is an abnormal increase in height  that may cause bone weakness, while in adult growth hormones, excess growth hormones may cause a condition called acromegaly in which bone thickens and deformities occur.  They would have  grown abnormally tall.  Most of the time, their  balance would also be affected.

  • It causes a  condition known as acromegaly.  Patients with swelling of hands  and feet and altered facial features.

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