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European Heart Journal 2004 25(2):183; doi:10.1016/j.ehj.2003.08.025
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Letter to the Editor

Growth Hormone Therapy

, Is it Always Good for the Heart?

Vicente Climenta,*, Francisco Marína, Antonio Picób and Francisco Sogorba

a Department of Cardiology, General Hospital of Alicante, Alicante, Spain
b Deparment of Endocrinology, General Hospital of Alicante, Alicante, Spain

* Corresponding author: Vicente E. Climent, Department of Cardiology, General Hospital of Alicante, Pintor Baeza s/n. 03002 Alicante, Spain
E-mail address: vcliment@coma.es

Received 27 July 2003; revised 4 August 2003; accepted 14 August 2003

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We read with interest the article of Cittadini et al.1about the effects of growth hormone (GH) therapy on cardiac structure and function in Becker and Duchenne muscular dystrophies. Large evidences demonstrate that the growth hormone/insuline-like growth factor-1 (GH/IGF-1) axis could have great relevance for the regulation of cardiac growth, . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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