| Update on early cardiovascular and metabolic risk factors in children and adolescents affected with growth hormone deficiency. | |
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PMID: 23022886 Owner: NLM Status: Publisher |
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Growth hormone (GH), in addition to promote linear growth during childhood, exerts a key role in several processes of substrate metabolism. Adults with untreated GH deficiency and adolescents who discontinued GH therapy at completion of growth, exhibit a cluster of cardiovascular risk factors such as impaired cardiac performance, alteration in body proportion with increased visceral fat, dyslipidemia and hypertension, that could place them at higher risk of cardiovascular morbidity. Although studies on adolescents and children are still scarce, there is evidence that early markers of cardiovascular disease can be already detected in untreated children with GH deficiency and that, as in adults, GH replacement therapy exerts a beneficial role on metabolic alterations. Untreated GH deficiency in childhood and adolescence seems to be associated with reduced cardiac size and impaired cardiac function, dyslipidemia, abnormalities in body composition and in peripheral inflammatory markers. GH replacement therapy exerts a beneficial effects on most of these alterations. Aim of this review is to summarize the current findings on the effects of GH deficiency and GH treatment on early cardiovascular risk factors in children and adolescents. |
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D Capalbo; A Esposito; R Di Mase; F Barbieri; G Parenti; P Vajro; C Pignata; M Salerno |
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Type: JOURNAL ARTICLE Date: 2012-10-01 |
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Title: Minerva endocrinologica Volume: - ISSN: 0391-1977 ISO Abbreviation: Minerva Endocrinol. Publication Date: 2012 Oct |
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Created Date: 2012-10-1 Completed Date: - Revised Date: - |
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Nlm Unique ID: 8406505 Medline TA: Minerva Endocrinol Country: - |
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Languages: ENG Pagination: - Citation Subset: - |
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Department of Pediatrics, Federico II University, Naples, Italy - salerno@unina.it. |
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