Comparison of detection of normal puberty in girls by a hormonal sleep test and a gonadotropin-releasing hormone agonist test

Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 98, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1591-1601

  Rosenfield, Robert L ^a   Bordini, Brian ^a   Yu, Christine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEXAMETHASONE; ESTRADIOL; FOLLITROPIN; GONADORELIN AGONIST; LEUPRORELIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; BODY MASS; BONE AGE; BREAST DEVELOPMENT; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; ESTRADIOL BLOOD LEVEL; EVENING DOSAGE; FEMALE; FOLLITROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; GONADOTROPIN RELEASING HORMONE AGONIST TEST; HORMONAL SLEEP TEST; HORMONE ACTION; HORMONE DETERMINATION; HORMONE RESPONSE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LOW DRUG DOSE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; MENARCHE; NORMAL HUMAN; OBESITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OVARY FUNCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PUBERTY; SCHOOL CHILD; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SLEEP; SLEEP WAKING CYCLE;

ADOLESCENT; AGE DETERMINATION BY SKELETON; BODY MASS INDEX; CHILD; DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES, ENDOCRINE; ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE; GONADOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; HEALTH; HUMANS; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; PUBERTY; SLEEP;

EID: 84876225220     PISSN: 0021972X     EISSN: 19457197     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/jc.2012-4136     Document Type: Article

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