Title : Stimulation of growth-hormone release with clonidine does not distinguish individual cases of idiopathic Parkinson's disease from those with striatonigral degeneration.

Pub. Date : 2002 Sep

PMID : 12242540






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1 However, taking the difference in prevalence of PD and SND into account, and because of the low likelihood ratios of the test, an increase of GH after clonidine increases the pre-test probability for PD by about only 5 %, while an absent response of GH also increases the pre-test probability for SND by about 5 %. Clonidine gamma-glutamyl hydrolase Homo sapiens