A combination of 6 months of treatment with pyridostigmine and triweekly exercise fails to improve insulin-like growth factor-I levels in fibromyalgia, despite improvement in the acute growth hormone response to exercise

Journal of Rheumatology

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1103-1111

  Jones, Kim Dupree ^a,b   Deodhar, Atul A ^a   Burckhardt, Carol S ^a   Perrin, Nancy A ^a   Hanson, Ginger C ^a   Bennett, Robert M ^a  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Mail Code: SN ORD   (United States)

Author keywords

Exercise; Fibromyalgia; Growth hormone; Insulin like growth factor I; Pyridostigmine

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN; GROWTH HORMONE; PLACEBO; PYRIDOSTIGMINE; SOMATOMEDIN C;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; AEROBIC EXERCISE; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEPRESSION; DIARRHEA; DIET; FATIGUE; FEMALE; FIBROMYALGIA; HEADACHE; HORMONE RELEASE; HORMONE RESPONSE; HOT FLUSH; HUMAN; LOOSE FECES; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MUSCLE CRAMP; MUSCLE STIFFNESS; MUSCLE TWITCH; MYALGIA; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; OBESITY; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALIVATION; SIDE EFFECT; TREADMILL EXERCISE;

CHOLINESTERASE INHIBITORS; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; EXERCISE THERAPY; FEMALE; FIBROMYALGIA; GROWTH HORMONE; HUMANS; INSULIN-LIKE GROWTH FACTOR I; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PYRIDOSTIGMINE BROMIDE; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 34248660791     PISSN: 0315162X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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