Table 2.

Overnight (22:00-08:00) levels of blood glucose and plasma insulin, and insulin infusion rates by body weight and FFM

	Visit GP rhGH+placebo	Visit PP placebo+placebo	Visit GA rhGH+acipimox	Visit PA placebo+acipimox	P value
Blood glucose (mmol/liter)	6.2 ± 0.1	6.2 ± 0.2	5.8 ± 0.2	5.7 ± 0.2	0.06
Insulin requirement (mU/kg body weight per minute)	1.1 ± 0.1	0.8 ± 0.1a	0.6 ± 0.1b	0.5 ± 0.1	<0.0001
Insulin requirement (mU/kg FFM per minute)	1.7 ± 0.2	1.1 ± 0.2a	0.9 ± 0.2b	0.8 ± 0.1c	<0.0001
Plasma insulin (pmol/liter)	106.4 ± 18.2	85.3 ± 19.1a	54.5 ± 4.0b	53.7 ± 9.8	0.009

Data are means ± 1 sem. 

^aP < 0.05 for GP vs. PP. 

^bP < 0.05 for GP vs. GA. 

^cP < 0.05 for PP vs. PA.