Intima media thickness of common carotids and abdominal aorta in children and adolescents with congenital adrenal hyperplasia due to 21-hydroxylase deficiency in relation to their genotypes.

CONCLUSION: In CAH patients CIMT and AIMT are influenced by androgens and obesity independent. In the examined group vascular and metabolic abnormalities are pronounced more in certain subgroups of CAH (SV and SW: Del/Del) and in patients with advanced bone age. PMID: 28759182 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Neuroendocrinology Letters - Category: Endocrinology Tags: Neuro Endocrinol Lett Source Type: research