Arq Bras Endocrinol Metab vol.55 número4

Adolescents girls with TS and spontaneous puberty have bone mineral density (BMD) in the normal range, while in TS girls who underwent induced puberty (48) and young TS patients

The dependent variable was the presence of DM, and the indepen- dent variables were age (biological importance), acro- megaly status after treatment (cured or not cured, pa-

Since then, prescription has been approved not only for GHD but also to a series of non-GH deicient patients, such as chronic renal failure, Turner syndrome, children born

Although the treatment of choice is prompt surgical abscess evacuation, followed by antibiotic treatment (9), successful conservative treatment of SEA has been reported in

Embora nas recomendações seja ressaltado que “não existe uma faixa de normali- dade para o GH basal que diferencie indivíduos normais daqueles com acromegalia”, reconhece-se que,

concluded that “Insulin resistance is often present in patients with chronic hepatitis C, and this parameter is associated with more advanced HCV-related hepatic ibrosis (1).”

Furthermore, decreased ATP synthesis that results from mitochondrial dysfunction also plays an impor- tant role in decreasing insulin secretion in patients with DM2, since it

Dunn’s multiple comparison test showed that kidney trans- plant patients had a signiicantly higher preoperati- ve creatinine levels compared with the other groups; however,