Changes in BMI and management of patients with childhood onset growth hormone deficiency in the transition phase

Experimental and Clinical Endocrinology and Diabetes

Volumn 120, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 507-510

  Bazarra Castro, M A ^a   Sievers, C ^a   Schwarz, H P ^b   Pozza, S B D ^b   Stalla, G K ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF PSYCHIATRY   (Germany)

^b LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

hypopituitarism; obesity; pituitary adenoma

Indexed keywords

GROWTH HORMONE; GROWTH HORMONE RELEASING FACTOR ARGININE; GROWTH HORMONE RELEASING FACTOR DERIVATIVE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CHILD; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; FEMALE; GENDER; GROWTH HORMONE DEFICIENCY; HORMONAL REGULATION; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC DISEASE; IDIOPATHIC GROWTH HORMONE DEFICIENCY; INSULIN HYPOGLYCEMIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; ORGANIC GROWTH HORMONE DEFICIENCY; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT REFERRAL; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROVOCATION TEST; REPEAT PROCEDURE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCHOOL CHILD; SIDE EFFECT; TREATMENT WITHDRAWAL;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT DEVELOPMENT; ADULT; BODY MASS INDEX; COHORT STUDIES; DRUG MONITORING; FEMALE; GERMANY; HORMONE REPLACEMENT THERAPY; HUMAN GROWTH HORMONE; HUMANS; INSULIN-LIKE GROWTH FACTOR I; MALE; MEDICATION ADHERENCE; OUTPATIENT CLINICS, HOSPITAL; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TRANSITION TO ADULT CARE; WEIGHT GAIN; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84867410532     PISSN: 09477349     EISSN: 14393646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-0032-1327599     Document Type: Article

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