Article
Lipid profiles in untreated severe congenital isolated growth hormone deficiency through the lifespan.
Clinical endocrinology - 1 Jul 2002
Gleeson Helena K, Souza Anita H O, Gill Matthew S, Wieringa Gilbert E, Barretto Elenilde S de A, Barretto-Filho J A S, Shalet Stephen M, Aguiar-Oliveira Manuel H, Clayton Peter E
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVE: Growth hormone deficiency (GHD) is associated with adverse changes in lipid profile. However, changes in lipids through life in a homogeneous group of GHD subjects have not been defined. PATIENTS AND MEASUREMENTS: We examined lipid levels in a group of untreated severely GHD patients with a mutation in the GHRH receptor gene from a rural community in North-east Brazil. Lipid profiles in 15 GHD subjects...
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