Adult height in girls with delayed pubertal growth

Hormone Research in Paediatrics

Volumn 76, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 130-135

  Wehkalampi, Karoliina ^a,b   Päkkilä, Katarina ^a   Laine, Tiina ^a   Dunkel, Leo ^c,d  

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

^b NATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^c KUOPIO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^d QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adult height; Constitutional delay of puberty; Estrogen; Low dose estrogen treatment; Pubertal delay; Pubertal growth

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELAYED PUBERTY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ESTROGEN THERAPY; FEMALE; GROWTH INHIBITION; HUMAN; LOW DRUG DOSE; MULTIPLE LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BODY HEIGHT; CHILD; ESTROGENS; FEMALE; HUMANS; PUBERTY, DELAYED;

EID: 84860423662     PISSN: 16632818     EISSN: 16632826     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000328055     Document Type: Article

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