Effects of GH and/or sex steroid administration on abdominal subcutaneous and visceral fat in healthy aged women and men

Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 86, Issue 8, 2001, Pages 3604-3610

  Münzer, Thomas ^a   Harman, S Mitchell ^a   Hees, Paul ^b   Shapiro, Ed ^b   Christmas, Colleen ^b   Bellantoni, Michele F ^b   Stevens, Thomas E ^b   O'Connor, Kieran G ^b   Pabst, Katherine M ^a   St Clair, Carol ^b   Sorkin, John D ^a   Blackman, Marc R ^b,c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON AGING   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS BAYVIEW MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c National Institutes of Health   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN; GROWTH HORMONE; HUMAN GROWTH HORMONE; MEDROXYPROGESTERONE ACETATE; PLACEBO; SEX HORMONE; SOMATOMEDIN; TESTOSTERONE; TESTOSTERONE ENANTATE;

ABDOMEN; ADULT; AGE; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; FEMALE; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; SUBCUTANEOUS FAT;

EID: 17944362705     PISSN: 0021972X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/jc.86.8.3604     Document Type: Article

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