Importance of Estrogen on Bone Health in Turner Syndrome: A Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Study Using Dual-Energy X-Ray Absorptiometry

Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 89, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 193-199

  Högler, Wolfgang ^a,b   Briody, Julie ^a   Moore, Bin ^a   Garnett, Sarah ^a   Lu, Pei Wen ^a   Cowell, Christopher T ^a  

^a CHILDREN S HOSPITAL AT WESTMEAD   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN; GROWTH HORMONE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BONE; BONE DEFECT; BONE DENSITY; BONE MASS; BONE MINERAL; CHILD; CLASSIFICATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DUAL ENERGY X RAY ABSORPTIOMETRY; FEMALE; FEMUR NECK; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH; HUMAN; LEAN BODY WEIGHT; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; LUMBAR SPINE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEASUREMENT; MENARCHE; METHODOLOGY; MUSCLE; OSTEOPENIA; PREPUBERTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBERTY; SCORING SYSTEM; SHORT STATURE; TURNER SYNDROME; VOLUMETRY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGING; BODY HEIGHT; BONE DENSITY; BONE DISEASES, METABOLIC; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DENSITOMETRY, X-RAY; ESTROGENS; FEMALE; FEMUR NECK; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; PUBERTY; TURNER SYNDROME;

EID: 0842291499     PISSN: 0021972X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/jc.2003-030799     Document Type: Article

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