The quality of life of adults with growth hormone deficiency: Comparison with diabetic patients and control subjects

Clinical Endocrinology

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 333-338

  Wallymahmed, Maureen E ^a,b   Foy, P ^a   MacFarlane, I A ^a  

^a WALTON HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b Walton Hospital   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BRAIN TUMOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; DIABETES MELLITUS; DYSTHYMIA; FEMALE; GROWTH HORMONE DEFICIENCY; HUMAN; HYPOPHYSIS TUMOR; HYPOPITUITARISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SELF ESTEEM; SKULL IRRADIATION; SKULL SURGERY; TRANSSPHENOIDAL SURGERY;

ADULT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; GROWTH HORMONE; HUMANS; HYPOPITUITARISM; MALE; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; QUALITY OF LIFE; SICKNESS IMPACT PROFILE;

EID: 0032819179     PISSN: 03000664     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2265.1999.00802.x     Document Type: Article

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