Improvement in cardiac systolic function and reduced prevalence of metabolic syndrome after two years of growth hormone (GH) treatment in GH-deficient adult survivors of childhood-onset acute lymphoblastic leukemia

Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 91, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1872-1875

  Follin, Cecilia ^a   Thilén, Ulf ^a   Ahrén, Bo ^a   Erfurth, Eva Marie ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GROWTH HORMONE; LEPTIN;

ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA; ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER SURVIVOR; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GROWTH HORMONE DEFICIENCY; HEART FUNCTION; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; HUMAN; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY MASS INDEX; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD; DENSITOMETRY, X-RAY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; EXERCISE; FEMALE; GROWTH HORMONE; HEART; HEART FUNCTION TESTS; HEART RATE; HUMAN GROWTH HORMONE; HUMANS; LEPTIN; LEUKEMIA, LYMPHOCYTIC, ACUTE; LIPOPROTEINS; MALE; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; RISK FACTORS; SURVIVORS; WAIST-HIP RATIO;

EID: 33646408763     PISSN: 0021972X     EISSN: 0021972X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/jc.2005-2298     Document Type: Article

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