Is further evaluation for growth hormone (GH) deficiency necessary in fibromyalgia patients with low serum insulin-like growth factor (IGF)-I levels?

Growth Hormone and IGF Research

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 82-88

  Yuen, Kevin C J ^a   Bennett, Robert M ^a   Hryciw, Cheryl A ^a   Cook, Marie B ^a   Rhoads, Sharon A ^a   Cook, David M ^a  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Arginine; Fibromyalgia; Growth hormone; Growth hormone releasing hormone; Insulin like growth factor I

Indexed keywords

ARGININE; GONADORELIN; GROWTH HORMONE; PROGESTERONE; SERMORELIN; SOMATOMEDIN C; TESTOSTERONE; THYROXINE;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; FIBROMYALGIA; GONADORELIN TEST; GROWTH HORMONE DEFICIENCY; HEAD INJURY; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; HUMAN; HYPOGONADISM; HYPOPHYSIS ADENOMA; HYPOPITUITARISM; HYPOTHYROIDISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SELLA TURCICA; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; WHIPLASH INJURY;

ADULT; AGED; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DWARFISM, PITUITARY; FEMALE; FIBROMYALGIA; GROWTH HORMONE; HUMANS; INSULIN-LIKE GROWTH FACTOR I; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PITUITARY FUNCTION TESTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 33847309225     PISSN: 10966374     EISSN: 15322238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ghir.2006.12.006     Document Type: Article

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