High prevalence of precocious puberty and obesity in childhood narcolepsy with cataplexy

Sleep

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 175-181

  Poli, Francesca ^a   Pizza, Fabio ^a   Mignot, Emmanuel ^b   Ferri, Raffaele ^c   Pagotto, Uberto ^d   Taheri, Shahrad ^e   Finotti, Elena ^a   Bernardi, Filippo ^d   Pirazzoli, Piero ^d   Cicognani, Alessandro ^d   Balsamo, Antonio ^d   Nobili, Lino ^f   Bruni, Oliviero ^g   Plazzi, Giuseppe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c OASI RESEARCH INSTITUTE IRCCS   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^f OSPEDALE NIGUARDA CA GRANDA   (Italy)

^g SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

Endocrine disorders; Hypocretin; Hypothalamic pituitary axis; Pubertal development; Sleep

Indexed keywords

HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; LEUKOCYTE ANTIGEN; OREXIN A;

ADOLESCENT; ARTERIAL PRESSURE; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; BONE AGE; BREAST DEVELOPMENT; CATAPLEXY; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS GONAD SYSTEM; INTERVIEW; MALE; NARCOLEPSY; OBESITY; PRECOCIOUS PUBERTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBERTY; SYMPTOM; WEIGHT GAIN;

BODY MASS INDEX; CHILD; COMORBIDITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MALE; NARCOLEPSY; OBESITY; PREVALENCE; PUBERTY, PRECOCIOUS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 84873387056     PISSN: 01618105     EISSN: 15509109     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5665/sleep.2366     Document Type: Article

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