A review of age-related dehydroepiandrosterone decline and its association with well-known geriatric syndromes: is treatment beneficial?

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Published in Rejuvenation Res on August 01, 2013

Authors

Nikolaos Samaras1, Dimitrios Samaras, Emilia Frangos, Alexandre Forster, Jacques Philippe

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Internal Medicine, Rehabilitation and Geriatrics, Geneva University Hospitals, Geneva, Switzerland. nikolassamaras@hotmail.com

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