BMI and Contraceptives Affect New Age-, Sex-, and Puberty-adjusted IGF-I and IGFBP-3 Reference Ranges Across Life Span
CONTEXT: Various clinical factors influencing serum levels of insulin-like growth factor I (IGF-I) and its binding protein 3 (IGFBP-3) are not entirely consistently described. OBJECTIVE: We asked whether body mass index (BMI), contraceptive drugs (CDs), and hormone replacement therapy (HRT) have pot...
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Language: | English |
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NLM (Medline)
2022
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