Prader-Willi syndrome with elevated follicle stimulating hormone levels and diabetes mellitus

Internal Medicine

Volumn 37, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 1039-1041

  Nagai, Takashi ^a   Mimura, Naoko ^a   Tomizawa, Takashi ^a   Monden, Tsuyoshi ^a   Mori, Masatomo ^b  

^a Public Tomioka General Hospital   (Japan)

^b GUNMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Insulin resistance; Luteinizing hormone (LH); Testosterone

Indexed keywords

C PEPTIDE; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; FOLLITROPIN; GONADORELIN; INSULIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; TESTOSTERONE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIABETIC DIET; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DOSE TIME EFFECT RELATION; FOLLITROPIN RELEASE; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HORMONE URINE LEVEL; HUMAN; HYPERGLYCEMIA; HYPOGONADOTROPIC HYPOGONADISM; INSULIN RESISTANCE; INSULIN TREATMENT; MALE; OBESITY; OLIGOSPERMIA; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRADER WILLI SYNDROME; TESTIS ATROPHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0032462987     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.37.1039     Document Type: Article

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