The effect of six months treatment with a 100 mg daily dose of dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) on circulating sex steroids, body composition and muscle strength in age-advanced men and women

Clinical Endocrinology

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 421-432

  Morales, A J ^a   Haubricht, R H ^b   Hwang, J Y ^b   Asakura, H ^a   Yen, S S C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANDROSTANOLONE; ANDROSTENEDIONE; ESTROGEN; GLUCOSE; GROWTH HORMONE BINDING PROTEIN; HYDROCORTISONE; INSULIN; LIPID; PLACEBO; PRASTERONE; PRASTERONE SULFATE; PROGESTERONE; SEX HORMONE; SEX HORMONE BINDING GLOBULIN; SOMATOMEDIN BINDING PROTEIN; SOMATOMEDIN BINDING PROTEIN 1; SOMATOMEDIN BINDING PROTEIN 3; SOMATOMEDIN C; TESTOSTERONE;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY MASS; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; DOSE RESPONSE; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; ESTROGEN THERAPY; FEMALE; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LONG TERM CARE; MALE; MUSCLE STRENGTH; NORMAL HUMAN; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL;

AGED; AGING; ANDROSTENEDIONE; BODY COMPOSITION; DEHYDROEPIANDROSTERONE; DEHYDROEPIANDROSTERONE SULFATE; DIHYDROTESTOSTERONE; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; ESTROGEN REPLACEMENT THERAPY; FEMALE; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; INSULIN-LIKE GROWTH FACTOR I; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; SEX FACTORS; SEX HORMONE-BINDING GLOBULIN; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 0031719355     PISSN: 03000664     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2265.1998.00507.x     Document Type: Article

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