Menstrual status and serum leptin levels in anorectic and in menstruating women with low body mass indexes

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 78, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 376-382

  Di Carlo, Costantino ^a   Tommaselli, Giovanni A ^a   De Filippo, Emilia ^a   Pisano, Gustavo ^b   Nasti, Anna ^a   Bifulco, Giuseppe ^a   Contaldo, Franco ^a   Nappi, Carmine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b SECOND UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES   (Italy)

Author keywords

Amenorrhea; Anorexia nervosa; Leptin; Low body mass index

Indexed keywords

FOLLITROPIN; LEPTIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; PROLACTIN; SOMATOMEDIN C; THYROTROPIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AMENORRHEA; ANOREXIA NERVOSA; ARTICLE; BODY FAT; BODY MASS; CALORIC INTAKE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; MENSTRUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ADULT; AMENORRHEA; ANOREXIA NERVOSA; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY MASS INDEX; FEMALE; HUMANS; INSULIN-LIKE GROWTH FACTOR I; LEPTIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MENSTRUATION;

EID: 0036321622     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0015-0282(02)03221-1     Document Type: Article

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