Blunted growth hormone responses to clonidine in adolescent girls with early anorexia nervosa

Autor:	Marc S. Jacobson, I. Ronald Shenker, Fred I. Chasalow, Sandra L. Blethen, Joseph Feldman, Michael P. Nussbaum
Rok vydání:	1990
Předmět:	medicine.medical_specialty business.industry Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Growth hormone Clonidine Endocrinology Anorexia nervosa (differential diagnoses) Internal medicine Pediatrics Perinatology and Child Health medicine Amenorrhea medicine.symptom business medicine.drug
Zdroj:	Journal of Adolescent Health Care. 11:145-148
ISSN:	0197-0070
DOI:	10.1016/0197-0070(90)90025-w
Popis:	We studied growth hormone (GH) levels in 14 adolescents with anorexia nervosa (AN), 12–20 years of age. All had amenorrhea and the duration of symptoms ranged from 2–24 months. There was no difference in unstimulated GH between the girls with AN and endocrinologically normal girls. However, the GH response to the α-adrenergic agent clonidine was blunted (
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