Bone age advancement in prepubertal children with obesity and premature adrenarche: Possible potentiating factors

Obesity

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1259-1264

  Sopher, Aviva B ^a   Jean, Amy M ^a   Zwany, Sarah K ^a   Winston, Diana M ^a   Pomeranz, Christy B ^a   Bell, Jennifer J ^a   McMahon, Donald J ^a   Hassoun, Abeer ^a   Fennoy, Ilene ^a   Oberfield, Sharon E ^a  

^a NewYork Presbyterian Hospital   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANDROSTENEDIONE; ESTRADIOL; ESTRONE; GLUCOSE; HEMOGLOBIN A1C; INSULIN; PRASTERONE SULFATE; SOMATOMEDIN C; TESTOSTERONE;

ADRENARCHE; AGE; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; BONE AGE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INSULIN RELEASE; INSULIN SENSITIVITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBESITY; ORAL GLUCOSE TOLERANCE TEST; PREMATURE ADRENARCHE; PREPUBERTY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SCORING SYSTEM;

ADRENAL GLANDS; AGE DETERMINATION BY SKELETON; AGE FACTORS; BODY MASS INDEX; BODY WEIGHT; BONE DISEASES, DEVELOPMENTAL; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEHYDROEPIANDROSTERONE SULFATE; ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; HEMOGLOBIN A, GLYCOSYLATED; HUMANS; INSULIN RESISTANCE; MALE; OBESITY; PUBERTY, PRECOCIOUS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TESTOSTERONE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 79957458090     PISSN: 19307381     EISSN: 1930739X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/oby.2010.305     Document Type: Article

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