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24th Joint Meeting of the British Endocrine Societies

Plenary Lectures

Clinical Endocrinology Trust Visiting Professor Lecture

ea0009s2 | Clinical Endocrinology Trust Visiting Professor Lecture | BES2005

Growth hormone - not only for growth, but for life?

Christiansen J

Growth hormone (GH) is secreted throughout life - albeit in diminishing quantities with age. Its many different physiological actions have been known since the classical work of Maurice Raben in the late fifties. However, due to lack of the hormone, replacement therapy was for many years restricted to the pediatric treatment of growth disorder, and its place in medicine became tightly connected with growth, and growth alone. Since the mid eighties natural sequence GH have been...

ea0009s2biog | Clinical Endocrinology Trust Visiting Professor Lecture | BES2005

Clinical Endocrinology Trust Visiting Professor Lecture

Jens Sandahl Christiansen

Jens Sandahl Christiansen, Medical Department M, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark AbstractJens Sandahl Christiansen, MD, is professor of medicine and consultant endocrinologist at Aarhus University Hospital, Kommunehospitalet, Aarhus, Denmark. He graduated from Copenhagen University Medical School, and has been trained in diabetes and endocrinology in Copenhagen and Aarhus.Dr. Chr...