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Impairment of bone mass development in children with chronic cholestatic liver disease

DOI

34

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30

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2007

Year

Adriana Távora de Albuquerque Taveira, Maria Inez Machado Fernandes, Lívia Carvalho Galväo, Regina Sawamura, Enaldo De Mello Vieira, Francisco José Albuquerque de Paula
Clinical Endocrinology

Abstract

These results indicate that CCLD limits bone mass gain in children. A reduction in hepatic IGF-1 production might be responsible, at least in part, for the low bone mass of these patients.

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