Growth hormone treatment of adults withgrowth hormone deficiency: results of a 13‐month placebo controlled cross‐over study

Clinical Endocrinology

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 1992, Pages 45-52

  Whitehead, Helen M ^a   Boreham, Colin ^b   Mcllrath, Edwin M ^a   Sheridan, Brian ^a   Kennedy, Laurence ^a   Atkinson, A Brew ^a   Madden, David R ^a  

^a ROYAL VICTORIA HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HUMAN GROWTH HORMONE; INSULIN; PLACEBO; RECOMBINANT GROWTH HORMONE; SOMATOMEDIN C; SOMATREM;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GROWTH HORMONE DEFICIENCY; HUMAN; MALE; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUBCUTANEOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION;

ADULT; ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; BODY COMPOSITION; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; GROWTH DISORDERS; GROWTH HORMONE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T;

EID: 0026573037     PISSN: 03000664     EISSN: 13652265     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2265.1992.tb02901.x     Document Type: Article

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