The severity of growth hormone deficiency correlates with the severity of cardiac impairment in 100 adult patients with hypopituitarism: An observational, case-control study

Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 89, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 5998-6004

  Colao, Annamaria ^a   Di Somma, Carolina ^a   Cuocolo, Alberto ^a   Filippella, Mariagiovanna ^a   Rota, Francesca ^a   Acampa, Wanda ^a   Savastano, Silvia ^a   Salvatore, Marco ^a   Lombardi, Gaetano ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGININE; GROWTH HORMONE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIASTOLE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EXERCISE; FEMALE; GROWTH HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; GROWTH HORMONE DEFICIENCY; HEART DISEASE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART VENTRICLE ENDDIASTOLIC PRESSURE; HUMAN; HYPOPITUITARISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBSERVATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REST; SYSTOLE;

ADULT; AGED; ARGININE; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CORONARY CIRCULATION; DIASTOLE; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; GROWTH HORMONE-RELEASING HORMONE; HEART DISEASES; HEMODYNAMIC PROCESSES; HUMAN GROWTH HORMONE; HUMANS; HYPOPITUITARISM; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; METABOLIC DISEASES; MIDDLE AGED; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STROKE VOLUME; SYSTOLE; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 10344237010     PISSN: 0021972X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/jc.2004-1042     Document Type: Article

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