The effects of five-year growth hormone replacement therapy on muscle strength in elderly hypopituitary patients

Clinical Endocrinology

Volumn 62, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 105-113

  Götherström, Galina ^a   Bengtsson, Bengt Åke ^a   Sunnerhagen, Katharina Stibrant ^a   Johannsson, Gudmundur ^a   Svensson, Johan ^a  

^a SAHLGRENSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTISONE ACETATE; DESMOPRESSIN; ESTROGEN; GLUCOCORTICOID; HUMAN GROWTH HORMONE; SEX HORMONE; SOMATOMEDIN C; TESTOSTERONE ENANTATE; THYROID HORMONE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY FAT; BODY MASS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; DRUG EFFECT; DUAL ENERGY X RAY ABSORPTIOMETRY; DYNAMOMETRY; ELDERLY CARE; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; GROWTH HORMONE DEFICIENCY; HAND GRIP; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; HUMAN; HYPOPITUITARISM; KNEE FUNCTION; LEG; LONG TERM CARE; MALE; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MUSCLE STRENGTH; ONSET AGE; OPEN STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PROSTATE CANCER; SIDE EFFECT; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BODY COMPOSITION; DENSITOMETRY, X-RAY; FEMALE; GROWTH HORMONE; HAND STRENGTH; HUMANS; HYPOPITUITARISM; INSULIN-LIKE GROWTH FACTOR I; KNEE JOINT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TENSILE STRENGTH; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 13144306100     PISSN: 03000664     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2265.2004.02181.x     Document Type: Article

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