Een klassiek concert als belevenis. Een onderzoek naar concertbezoek en de rol van sponsoring

Contains fulltext : 54824.pdf (publisher's version ) (Closed access)0ntbrkt;RU Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen, 18 januari 2006Promotores : Snippenburg, L.B. van, Wester, F.P.J.188 p

Impaired social status of growth hormone deficient adults as compared to controls with short or normal stature

Summary OBJECTIVES In adults with growth hormone deficiency (GHD) social problems have been reported, but so far the relative contributions of GHD, additional pituitary deficiencies and short stature have not been distinguished. We therefore compared social data from GHD patlents wlth soclal date from controls wlth short or normal stature. Furthermore we Investigated whether social problems are caused solely by the deficiency of OH or also by the associated absence of other pitultary hormones. DESIGN A questionnaire was sent to patient8 and controls with items on education, profession, income, partner and living situation. PATIENTS Two hundred and ten GHD patients treated in chlldhood but not in adulthood wlth GH (93 isolated GHD (IGHD), 111 patients with multiple pltultary deficiency (MPD)) were compared wlth 53 short controls (helght In chlldhood <third percentile for population) and 39 normal stature controls. RESULTS There were no differences between short and normal controls. There were also no differences between IGHD and MPD patients in any of the Investigated Items. GHD patients did not differ from controls on education level, but scored lower on the profession scale, had a lower Income and had a partner less often; If they had a partner they less often had children; also, more of them lived with their parents