Baseline characteristics and the effects of two years of growth hormone replacement therapy in adults with growth hormone deficiency previously treated for Cushing's disease

Clinical Endocrinology

Volumn 60, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 550-559

  Johannsson, Gudmundur ^a   Sunnerhagen, Katharina Stibrant ^a   Svensson, Johan ^a  

^a SAHLGRENSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GROWTH HORMONE;

ADRENALECTOMY; ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; BODY COMPOSITION; BONE MASS; BONE MINERAL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CUSHING DISEASE; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; DUAL ENERGY X RAY ABSORPTIOMETRY; FEMALE; GAMMA KNIFE RADIOSURGERY; GROWTH HORMONE DEFICIENCY; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; HUMAN; HYPOPITUITARISM; LUMBAR SPINE; MALE; METABOLIC BALANCE; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MUSCLE STRENGTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; STEREOTAXIC SURGERY; TRANSSPHENOIDAL SURGERY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

BODY COMPOSITION; BONE DENSITY; CUSHING SYNDROME; DENSITOMETRY, X-RAY; FEMALE; HORMONE REPLACEMENT THERAPY; HUMAN GROWTH HORMONE; HUMANS; HYPOPITUITARISM; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 2542432388     PISSN: 03000664     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2265.2004.02018.x     Document Type: Article

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