Dehydroepiandrosterone replacement therapy - Panacea, snake oil, or a bit of both?

Nature Clinical Practice Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 4, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 442-443

  Chang, Alice Y ^a   Ghayee, Hans K ^a   Auchus, Richard J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; PLACEBO; PRASTERONE; PRASTERONE SULFATE; SEX HORMONE BINDING GLOBULIN; SOMATOMEDIN C; STEROID; TESTOSTERONE;

ACNE; ADRENAL INSUFFICIENCY; COMORBIDITY; GYNECOMASTIA; HIRSUTISM; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; HUMAN; HYPOPITUITARISM; MORTALITY; NEOPLASM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; SHORT SURVEY; SIDE EFFECT;

ANDROGENS; DEHYDROEPIANDROSTERONE; FEMALE; HORMONE REPLACEMENT THERAPY; HUMANS; INSULIN-LIKE GROWTH FACTOR I; MALE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC;

EID: 47949125726     PISSN: 17458366     EISSN: 17458374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncpendmet0870     Document Type: Short Survey

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