A new stress-related syndrome of growth failure and hyperphagia in children, associated with reversibility of growth-hormone insufficiency

Lancet

Volumn 348, Issue 9024, 1996, Pages 353-358

  Skuse, David ^a   Albanese, Assunta ^a   Stanhope, Richard ^a   Gilmour, Jane ^a   Voss, Linda ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b SOUTHAMPTON GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GROWTH HORMONE;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GROWTH DISORDER; GROWTH HORMONE DEFICIENCY; HOME; HUMAN; HYPERPHAGIA; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POLYDIPSIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROVOCATION TEST; SCHOOL; STRESS;

EID: 0030578657     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(96)01358-X     Document Type: Article

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