Serum FGF21 in boys with idiopathic short stature: Relationship to lipid profile, onset of puberty and growth

Clinical Endocrinology

Volumn 75, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 141-142

  Hero, Matti ^a   Dunkel, Leo ^b   Vaaralahti, Kirsi ^a,c   Raivio, Taneli ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI AND HELSINKI UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^b QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APOLIPOPROTEIN A1; APOLIPOPROTEIN B; AROMATASE INHIBITOR; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 21; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; TRIACYLGLYCEROL; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR; LIPOPROTEIN;

BLOOD SAMPLING; BODY HEIGHT; CHILD; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SAFETY; HUMAN; HYPOGONADOTROPIC HYPOGONADISM; INSULIN RESISTANCE; LETTER; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBERTY; SHORT STATURE; TRIACYLGLYCEROL BLOOD LEVEL; ADOLESCENT; BLOOD; GROWTH DISORDER; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC);

ADOLESCENT; BODY HEIGHT; CHILD; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTORS; GROWTH DISORDERS; HUMANS; LIPOPROTEINS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; PUBERTY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC;

EID: 79958810325     PISSN: 03000664     EISSN: 13652265     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2265.2011.03999.x     Document Type: Letter

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