Reduced exercise capacity in untreated adults with primary growth hormone resistance (Laron syndrome)

Clinical Endocrinology

Volumn 59, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 763-767

  Ben Dov, Issahar ^a,b   Gaides, Mark ^a   Scheinowitz, Mickey ^b   Wagner, Rivka ^a   Laron, Zvi ^c  

^a Pulmonary Institute   (Israel)

^b SHEBA MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^c SCHNEIDER CHILDREN S MEDICAL CENTER OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GROWTH HORMONE; SOMATOMEDIN C;

ADULT; ANAEROBIC THRESHOLD; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BREATHING; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYCLING; EXERCISE; FEMALE; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HEART; HEART OUTPUT; HORMONE RESISTANCE; HUMAN; LARON SYNDROME; LUNG FUNCTION; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; MALE; MUSCLE DISEASE; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; EXERCISE TEST; EXERCISE TOLERANCE; FEMALE; GROWTH HORMONE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; INSULIN-LIKE GROWTH FACTOR I; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OXYGEN; RESPIRATORY FUNCTION TESTS; SYNDROME;

EID: 0345376024     PISSN: 03000664     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2265.2003.01920.x     Document Type: Article

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