Adult growth hormone deficiency: academic extravagance or real clinical entity for the internist?
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Adult Growth Hormone Deficiency
Adult growth hormone deficiency (AGHD) is an heterogeneous clinical entity characterized by increased cardiovascular morbidity and mortality, alterations in body composition, osteoporosis and impaired quality of life. In order to characterize higher risk subpopulations we studied 77 patients with AGHD, 35 with childhood onset (AGHD-CO): CA 18-44 yr.; 13 females and 22 males, and 42 with adult o...
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عنوان ژورنال: Italian Journal of Medicine
سال: 2013
ISSN: 1877-9352,1877-9344
DOI: 10.4081/itjm.2008.3.4