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Steroid Excretion in Relation to Weight in Mentally Defective Boys

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2018

Gordon Dutton*
Affiliation:
Botleys Park Hospital, Chertsey, Surrey

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Cohen (1958) has shown that obese children have increased 17-ketogenic steroid excretion and Norval and King (1950) showed that urinary corticosteroids in normal children were closely related to their weight. Lugg and Bowness (1957) found a positive correlation between weight and 17-ketosteroid excretion in adults. Dutton (1958) found that mongol boys were about 15 per cent. over weight for their height although their height and weight were depressed for their life age.

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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1960 

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