Am J Psychiatry 1993; 150:336-337
Copyright © 1993 by American Psychiatric Association
Blunted growth hormone responses to growth hormone-releasing factor and to clonidine in panic disorder
ME Tancer, MB Stein, B Black and TW Uhde
Section on Anxiety and Affective Disorders, NIMH. Bethesda, MD 20892.
Blunted growth hormone (GH) responses to growth hormone-releasing factor
(GH-RF) and clonidine have been reported in patients with panic disorder.
In this study GH-RF and clonidine were administered to 13 patients with
panic disorder and 20 healthy volunteers. Compared to the normal subjects,
the patients with panic disorder had significantly blunted GH responses
after both GH-RF and clonidine.
