Bone mineral status in prepubertal children with constitutional delay of growth and puberty
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Bone mineral status in prepubertal children with constitutional delay of growth and puberty.
OBJECTIVE We wished to clarify whether the osteopenia reported in adult men with a history of constitutional delay of growth and puberty (CDGP) could be due to the delayed puberty or an independent predisposition to osteoporosis in this condition. DESIGN Short prepubertal children with CDGP and children with familial short stature (FSS) were matched for height and other auxological variables....
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عنوان ژورنال: European Journal of Endocrinology
سال: 1998
ISSN: 0804-4643,1479-683X
DOI: 10.1530/eje.0.1390271