Article: Health Status of Children & Young People With CAH In The UK
A recently published reseach paper “Health Status of Children and Young Persons with Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia in the UK (CAH-UK): a cross-sectional multi-centre study” in the in European Journal of Endocrinology concludes that ‘(there is) an increased prevalence of problems with growth and weight gain in CAH children and (a suggestion of) reduced quality of life’. (The research) ‘highlights the urgent need to optimise management and monitoring strategies to improve long-term health outcomes.’.
Read the full research paper here:
https://eje.bioscientifica.com/view/journals/eje/aop/eje-21-1109/eje-21-1109.xml
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