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Article: Fed: Health warning as growth hormone hailed as new HRT
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- AAP General News (Australia)
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- September 13, 2004
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AAP General News (Australia)
09-13-2004
Fed: Health warning as growth hormone hailed as new HRT
By Kylie Walker, National Medical Correspondent
SYDNEY, Sept 13 AAP - Human growth hormone has been billed as the new hormone replacement
therapy, but a hormone expert today warned it could promote diabetes and cancer if used
as an anti-ageing tonic.
Human growth hormone (hGH) could help reduce weight, prevent muscle and bone mass loss,
improve skin tone and mood alternations, anti-ageing practitioner Dr Russell Cooper told
a cosmetic physicians' conference recently.
In what could pave the way for hGH to become "the new HRT", a simple blood test for
hGH deficiency could lead to more ...