title: Insulin-like growth factor I values in patients on maintenance hemodialysis: relationship to growth hormone and albumin levels.
abstract: Twenty-seven uremic patients (blood urea: 58.2 +/- 2.2 mmol/l; blood creatinine: 1,069 +/- 53 mumol/l; mean +/- SE) on maintenance dialysis were investigated immediately before and after a dialysis session. Control data were obtained from 30 normal volunteers. Before dialysis, circulating levels of insulin-like growth factor I (IGF-I) were similar in anuric and nonanuric patients, averaging 305 +/- 24 micrograms/l, a value not different from that observed in normal controls (262 +/- 16 micrograms/l). IGF-I levels were not modified by dialysis. In contrast, GH values were significantly higher in uremic patients (3.6 +/- 0.6 microgram/l) than in normal controls (2.5 +/- 0.5 microgram/l) and decreased significantly after the dialysis session (0.8 +/- 0.1 microgram/l). IGF-I values were positively correlated with GH and albumin, but not with the various parameters of renal insufficiency, suggesting that in chronic renal failure, synthesis of IGF-I appears to be regulated, as in normal subjects, by growth hormone and nutritional status.
authors.affiliation: Laboratory of Experimental Medicine, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Caufriez
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Abramowicz
authors.forename: J L
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Vanherweghem
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Copinschi
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D013006:Growth Hormone / Q000097:blood; D006801:Humans; D007334:Insulin-Like Growth Factor I / Q000032:analysis*; D007676:Kidney Failure, Chronic / Q000097:blood* / Q000628:therapy; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D006435:Renal Dialysis; D012709:Serum Albumin / Q000032:analysis
chemical_list: D012709:Serum Albumin; D007334:Insulin-Like Growth Factor I; D013006:Growth Hormone