Growth hormone deficiency predicts cardiovascular risk in young adults treated for acute lymphoblastic leukemia in childhood

Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 89, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 5003-5012

  Link, Katarina ^a   Moëll, Christian ^a   Garwicz, Stanislaw ^a   Cavallin Ståhl, Eva ^a   Björk, Jonas ^a   Thilén, Ulf ^a   Ahrén, Bo ^a   Erfurth, Eva Marie ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APOLIPOPROTEIN; ARGININE; ASPARAGINASE; ATENOLOL; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; CYTARABINE; DIGOXIN; DOXORUBICIN; ENALAPRIL MALEATE; FIBRINOGEN; FOLINATE CALCIUM; GROWTH HORMONE; GROWTH HORMONE RELEASING FACTOR; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; INSULIN; LEPTIN; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; MERCAPTOPURINE; METHOTREXATE; PREDNISOLONE; PREDNISONE; SERTRALINE; TESTOSTERONE; TRIACYLGLYCEROL; VINCRISTINE;

ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA; ADULT; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY FAT; BODY MASS; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CHILDHOOD CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEMOGRAPHY; DEPRESSION; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; DUAL ENERGY X RAY ABSORPTIOMETRY; FEMALE; FIBRINOGEN BLOOD LEVEL; GROWTH HORMONE DEFICIENCY; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HEART FAILURE; HEART SIZE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INSULIN BLOOD LEVEL; INSULIN TOLERANCE TEST; LEAN BODY WEIGHT; LIPOPROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; MALE; MEASUREMENT; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PATIENT; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPHYLAXIS; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; RADIATION DOSE; RECREATION; SMOKING HABIT; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TRIACYLGLYCEROL BLOOD LEVEL;

EID: 6344243107     PISSN: 0021972X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/jc.2004-0126     Document Type: Article

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