Dehydroepiandrosterone in morbidly obese adolescents: Effects on weight, body composition, lipids, and insulin resistance

Metabolism: Clinical and Experimental

Volumn 45, Issue 8, 1996, Pages 1011-1015

  Vogiatzi, Maria G ^a   Boeck, Marjorie A ^a   Vlachopapadopoulou, Elpis ^a   El Rashid, Ragab ^a   New, Maria I ^a  

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTEROL; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN; INSULIN; LIPOPROTEIN A; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN; PLACEBO; PRASTERONE; PRASTERONE SULFATE; TESTOSTERONE; TRIACYLGLYCEROL;

ADOLESCENCE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY FAT; BODY WEIGHT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; FEMALE; HORMONE ACTION; HUMAN; INSULIN RESISTANCE; LIPID BLOOD LEVEL; MALE; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUBLINGUAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION;

EID: 0029812112     PISSN: 00260495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0026-0495(96)90272-3     Document Type: Article

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