Baseline Characteristics and Response to 2 Years of Growth Hormone (GH) Replacement of Hypopituitary Patients with GH Deficiency due to Adult-Onset Craniopharyngioma in Comparison with Patients with Nonfunctioning Pituitary Adenoma: Data from KIMS (Pfizer International Metabolic Database) - Verhelst, Johan; Kendall-Taylor, Pat; Erfurth, Eva Marie; Price, David Anthony; Geffner, Mitchell; Koltowska-Häggström, Maria; Jönsson, Peter J.; Wilton, Patrick; Abs, Roger (The journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism, 2005)
Keywords: Adenoma; Adenoma - complications; Adenoma - mortality; Adenoma - surgery; Adult; Age of Onset; Biological and medical sciences; Blood Glucose; Body Composition; Body fat; Cardiovascular disease; Cardiovascular diseases; Cholesterol; Comorbidity; Coronary artery disease; Craniopharyngioma - complications; Craniopharyngioma - mortality; Craniopharyngioma - surgery; Databases, Factual; Diabetes mellitus; Dyslipidemia; Endocrinopathies; Epidemiology; Fasting; Fat-free body mass; Female; Fractures; Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology; Glycated Hemoglobin A - metabolism; Growth hormones; Heart diseases; High density lipoprotein; Hip; Human Growth Hormone - deficiency; Human Growth Hormone - therapeutic use; Humans; Hypopituitarism; Hypopituitarism - drug therapy; Hypopituitarism - etiology; Hypopituitarism - mortality; Hypothalamus. Hypophysis. Epiphysis (diseases); Insulin-Like Growth Factor I - metabolism; Lipids; Lipids - blood; Male; Medical sciences; Metabolic disorders; Middle Aged; Mortality; Neoplasia; Non tumoral diseases. Target tissue resistance. Benign neoplasms; Patients; Pituitary; Pituitary Neoplasms - complications; Pituitary Neoplasms - mortality; Pituitary Neoplasms - surgery; Population studies; Prevalence; Quality of Life; Surgery; Treatment Outcome; Triglycerides; Tumors; Vertebrates: endocrinology; Endocrinopathy; Human; Intracranial; Nervous system diseases; Replacement therapy; Hormone therapy; Deficiency; Somatotropin hormone; Metabolism; Adenohypophyseal hormone; Age of onset; Hypophyseal insufficiency; Pituitary diseases; Database; Tumor; Adult; Craniopharyngioma; Pituitary Adenoma; Endocrinology; Comparative study; International