Open AccessGender, Age, Body Mass Index, and IGF-I Individually and Jointly Determine Distinct GH Dynamics: Analyses in One Hundred Healthy Adults
Author(s) -
Johannes D. Veldhuis,
Ferdinand Roelfsema,
Daniel M. Keenan,
Steven M. Pincus
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
the journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism/journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.206
H-Index - 353
eISSN - 1945-7197
pISSN - 0021-972X
DOI - 10.1210/jc.2010-1669
Subject(s) - body mass index , medicine , endocrinology , demography , young adult , obesity , sociology
GH secretion is quantifiable as mean, peak, and nadir GH concentrations; degree of irregularity (approximate entropy); and spikiness (brief staccato-like fluctuations).