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in children of the general population ( 11 ). However, in patients with childhood-onset CP, the association of parental body mass index (BMI) and obesity after treatment is not well understood. In our study, body weight, body height, and BMI in
Division of Epidemiology and Biometry, Carl von Ossietzky University, Oldenburg, Germany
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Faculty of Health Sciences and Medicine, University of Lucerne, Lucerne, Switzerland
Department of Pediatrics, McMaster Children’s Hospital and McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
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patients with hypothalamic involvement (HI) and/or treatment-related hypothalamic lesion (HL), the body mass index (BMI) increases during the first year after surgery, frequently resulting in morbid obesity ( 11 , 12 , 13 , 14 , 15 ). Severe obesity
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suggested that pretreatment IGF-1 levels, sex, body mass index (BMI) and previous radiotherapy may play a role in the efficacy/effectiveness of pharmacologic treatments to achieve disease control ( 17 , 18 , 19 , 20 , 21 ). However, results were
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Department of Endocrinology, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust, Birmingham, UK
School of Nursing and Midwifery, Institute of Clinical Sciences, University of Birmingham, UK
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Department of Endocrinology, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust, Birmingham, UK
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Centre for Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Birmingham Health Partners, Birmingham, UK
Department of Endocrinology, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust, Birmingham, UK
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Centre for Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Birmingham Health Partners, Birmingham, UK
Department of Endocrinology, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust, Birmingham, UK
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longitudinal studies in adults over the age of 25 have shown that long-term treatment with GH does not normalise the metabolic profile and it even increases body mass index (BMI) ( 3 , 11 , 12 ). Currently, GH treatment in adults involves daily subcutaneous
Department of Pediatric Endocrinology, Wilhelmina Children’s Hospital, University Medical Center, Lundlaan, EA Utrecht, The Netherlands
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Department of Pediatric Endocrinology, Wilhelmina Children’s Hospital, University Medical Center, Lundlaan, EA Utrecht, The Netherlands
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Department of Pediatric Endocrinology, Wilhelmina Children’s Hospital, University Medical Center, Lundlaan, EA Utrecht, The Netherlands
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Wilhelmina Children’s Hospital, University Medical Center, Lundlaan, EA Utrecht, The Netherlands
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Department of Radiology, Wilhelmina Children's Hospital, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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mineralization ( 15 , 16 ). Besides the increase in body mass index (BMI), pituitary deficiencies and immobilization (due to visual problems, fatigue, and/or lack of initiative) are common in these patients and may contribute to bone problems ( 17 ). Lastly
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/obese subjects ( 57 , 58 ). Lowering the GH cut-off from 3 to 1 μg/L has been shown to reduce misclassifying adult GHD in overweight (body mass index (BMI) 25–30 kg/m 2 ) patients with a low pre-test probability and in obese (BMI >30 kg/m 2 ) patients ( 57 , 59