Adult growth hormone (GH)-deficient patients demonstrate heterogeneity between childhood onset and adult onset before and during human GH treatment

Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 82, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 82-88

  Attanasio, Andrea F ^a   Lamberts, Steven W J ^b,f   Matranga, Anna M C ^a   Birkett, Martin A ^a   Bates, Peter C ^a   Valk, Nick K ^b   Hilsted, Jannik ^c   Bengtsson, Bengt Åke ^d   Strasburger, Christian J ^e   Cacciari, E ^g   Charbonnel, B ^g   Chiumello, G ^g   Fossati, P ^g   Lokkgaard, N ^g   Jung, R T ^g   Scriba, P C ^g   Trygstad, O E ^g   Webb, S ^g   Wuster C ^g  

^a ELI LILLY AND COMPANY   (United States)

^b ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c HVIDOVRE HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^d SAHLGRENSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^e LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^f ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^g NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GROWTH HORMONE; SOMATOMEDIN BINDING PROTEIN 3; SOMATOMEDIN C;

ARTHRALGIA; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EDEMA; FEMALE; GROWTH HORMONE DEFICIENCY; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; HYPESTHESIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYALGIA; ONSET AGE; PARESTHESIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SKINFOLD; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGING; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY CONSTITUTION; CHOLESTEROL; CHOLESTEROL, HDL; CHOLESTEROL, LDL; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; HUMAN GROWTH HORMONE; HUMANS; INSULIN-LIKE GROWTH FACTOR BINDING PROTEIN 3; INSULIN-LIKE GROWTH FACTOR I; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PLACEBOS; SKINFOLD THICKNESS;

EID: 8044255242     PISSN: 0021972X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/jc.82.1.82     Document Type: Article

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