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Article: Injections of 'Anti-Aging' Human Growth Hormone Carry Serious Side Effects.

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November 13, 2002
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By Nancy Weaver Teichert, The Sacramento Bee, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Nov. 13--Injections of human growth hormone that can cost up to $15,000 a year do lower body fat as people age, but dangerous side effects diminish "anti-aging" claims, a new national study has found.

Up to 40 percent of the healthy volunteers who received growth hormones, either alone or in combination with sex hormones, suffered adverse effects like diabetes, glucose intolerance, joint swelling and carpal tunnel syndrome.

All the adverse side effects ceased two to six weeks after the treatments stopped, said Dr. Marc R. Blackman, lead investigator ...

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