HIV:

Janet Lo1, Sung Min You, Bridget Canavan

  • 1Program in Nutritional Metabolism, Massachusetts General Hospital, 55 Fruit St, Boston, MA 02114, USA.

JAMA
|August 5, 2008
PubMed
まとめ

HIV患者の低用量成長ホルモン (GH) 治療は内臓脂肪を減らし,心血管のマーカーを改善したが,グルコースレベルを上昇させた. この研究では,腹部脂肪の蓄積とGH欠乏症のHIV患者における体構成と代謝健康に対するGHの影響を調査した.

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