Table 1.

Baseline characteristics

	HC, n = 21	HA, n = 13	AN, n = 18	P values
				HC vs. HA	HC vs. AN	HA vs. AN
Age (yr)	27.1 ± 1.5	27.3 ± 1.6	25.5 ± 1.4	0.93	0.45	0.41
BMI (kg/m2)	22.6 ± 0.4	21.0 ± 0.4	18.2 ± 0.2	0.01a	<0.0001a	<0.0001a
% IBW	99.3 ± 1.3	93.4 ± 1.4	79.8 ± 0.9	0.02a	<0.0001a	<0.0001a
% Fat (DXA)	26.7 ± 1.0	24.1 ± 0.9	17.9 ± 0.8	0.08	<0.0001a	<0.0001a
Age of menarche (yr)	12.8 ± 0.3	12.7 ± 0.4	13.2 ± 0.3	0.69	0.41	0.29
Months amenorrhea	0	33.2 ± 9.0	58.9 ± 14.9	<0.0001	<0.0001a	0.19
Hours exercise/wk	3.8 ± 0.5	5.7 ± 0.9	7.7 ± 1.5	0.06	0.01a	0.28
No. alcoholic drinks/wk	1.8 ± 0.5	3.2 ± 0.7	1.5 ± 0.5	0.08	0.66	0.04
IGF-I (ng/ml)	228.7 ± 18.1	249.7 ± 22.5	187.5 ± 17.5	0.48	0.12	0.04
Leptin (ng/ml)	9.1 ± 0.8	6.3 ± 0.8	2.8 ± 0.5	0.03a	<0.0001a	0.0006a

Results are means ± sem. 

^aP < 0.05 after correcting for multiple comparisons using Tukey-Kramer.