Citation

Jensen JB, Pease JJ, ten Bensel R, Garfinkel BD. J. Am. Acad. Child Adolesc. Psychiatry 1991; 30(5): 784-790.

Affiliation

Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis 55455.

Comment In:

J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 1992;31(4):752-5.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1991, American Academy of Child Adolescent Psychiatry, Publisher Lippincott Williams and Wilkins)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

1938795

Abstract

The ratio of growth hormone response to clonidine and L-dopa challenge was compared in 74 boys: 15 with purported physical abuse, 7 with purported sexual abuse, 13 normal controls, and 39 psychiatric controls. Sexually abused boys demonstrate a statistically significant elevated ratio of growth hormone response to clonidine versus response to L-dopa. Physically abused boys demonstrate lower clonidine/L-dopa growth hormone response ratios compared with controls. These effects widen with increasing physical development.

Language: en