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- Title
Influence of body mass index and gender on growth hormone (GH) responses to GH-releasing hormone plus arginine and insulin tolerance tests.
- Authors
Qu, Xiao-Dan; Gaw Gonzalo, Irene T; Al Sayed, Mohammed Y; Cohan, Pejman; Christenson, Peter D; Swerdloff, Ronald S; Kelly, Daniel F; Wang, Christina
- Abstract
The aim of this study is to assess whether gender and body mass index (BMI) should be considered in developing thresholds to define GH deficiency, using GH responses to GHRH + arginine (ARG) stimulation and insulin tolerance test (ITT). Thirty-nine healthy subjects (19 males, 20 females; ages 21-50 yr) underwent GHRH + ARG, and another 27 subjects (19 males, 8 females; ages 20-49 yr) underwent ITT. Peak GH response was significantly higher (P = 0.005) after GHRH + ARG than with ITT, and this difference could not be explained by age, gender, or BMI. Peak GH response was negatively correlated with BMI in both tests (GHRH + ARG, r = -0.76; and ITT, r = -0.65). Peak GH response to GHRH + ARG was higher in females than males (P = 0.004; ratio = 2.4), but it was attenuated after eliminating the influence of BMI (P = 0.13; ratio = 1.6). No significant gender differences were found in peak GH responses to ITT, which could be due to the smaller number of female subjects studied. GH response to GHRH + ARG and ITT stimulation is sensitive to BMI differences and less so to gender differences. A higher BMI is associated with a depressed GH response to both stimulation tests. BMI should therefore be considered as a factor when defining the diagnostic cut-off points in the assessment of GH deficiency, whereas whether gender should be likewise used is inconclusive from this study.
- Subjects
DIAGNOSIS of endocrine diseases; METABOLIC disorder diagnosis; ARGININE; COMPARATIVE studies; HUMAN reproduction; INSULIN; INSULIN resistance; RESEARCH methodology; MEDICAL cooperation; OLIGOPEPTIDES; RESEARCH; RESEARCH funding; EVALUATION research; HUMAN growth hormone; BODY mass index
- Publication
Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism, 2005, Vol 90, Issue 3, p1563
- ISSN
0021-972X
- Publication type
journal article
- DOI
10.1210/jc.2004-1450