Adults with partial growth hormone deficiency have an adverse body composition

Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 89, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 1586-1591

  Murray, Robert D ^a   Adams, Judith E ^b   Shalet, Stephen M ^a  

^a CHRISTIE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LEPTIN;

ADULT; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY FAT; BODY MASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GROWTH HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; GROWTH HORMONE DEFICIENCY; HUMAN; LEAN BODY WEIGHT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; SHORT STATURE; SKINFOLD THICKNESS;

ADULT; ANTHROPOMETRY; BODY COMPOSITION; COHORT STUDIES; DENSITOMETRY, X-RAY; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; HUMAN GROWTH HORMONE; HUMANS; HYPOPITUITARISM; INSULIN-LIKE GROWTH FACTOR I; LEPTIN; METABOLISM, INBORN ERRORS; SKINFOLD THICKNESS;

EID: 1942440983     PISSN: 0021972X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/jc.2003-030761     Document Type: Article

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