[Role of somatotropin in the development of functional diseases of the digestive system in adolescents].

To determine the role of adenotropic hormones in formation of a functional pathology of the system of digestion in teenagers, somatotropin concentration in 160 patients with gastroesophageal reflux disease, functional dyspepsia and biliary dyskinesia has been studied. The tendency to the increase of the level of the hormone has been observed in patients with these diseases, especially it was obvious among 15-year old patients and teenagers with endocrine pathology. The author reveal different variations of concentration of somatotropin depending on a clinical form of the vegetative dysfunction in connection with functional diseases of the gastrointestinal system, biliary dyskinesia, vegetative nervous system, teenagers.