Endocrine Abstracts

The aim of the present study was to examine the role of steroid hormones in control of growth and obesity. We have measured plasma level of progesterone (P4), testosteron (T) and estradiol (E2) in 301 adolescent girls at different stages of their ovarian cycle, and compared they with standard morphometric indexes of their growth and obesity – body height, body mass, abdomen and hip circumstances and waist to hip ratio (WHR). The ovarian cycle-depende...