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Published in final edited form as: Obesity (Silver Spring). 2010 Dec 2;19(2):269–275. doi: 10.1038/oby.2010.274

Table 4.

Hormone values at visits 1 and 2.

	Males (n=13)		Females (n=12)		p-value^*
	Visit 1	Visit 2	Visit 1	Visit 2	p-value^*
Glucose AUC (mL/dL/day)	151207 ± 15936	146130 ± 8433	149480 ± 9046	150585 ± 8985	0.3954
Insulin AUC (uU/mL/day)	21417 ± 12436	22505 ± 9041	25989 ± 12489	30310 ± 13798^#	0.0446
C-peptide AUC (nmol/L/day)	1190 ± 445	1225 ± 424	1277 ± 413	1403 ± 538	0.1664
hGH AUC (ng/mL/day)	2824 ± 1795	1449 ± 1283^#	3414 ± 2294	3731 ± 2610	0.2157
Fasting Leptin (ng/mL)	2.6 ± 1.7	5.0 ± 3.0^#	12.9 ± 4.9	21.9 ± 8.3^#	<0.0001
Ghrelin AUC (pg/mL/day)^{^}	236423 ± 1219322	146130 ± 8433	210260 ± 96529	220291 ± 76834	0.3559
Norepinephrine AUC (pg/mL/day)	53767 ± 20500	48540 ± 12821	66303 ± 30198	61125 ± 29753	0.2940
Epinephrine AUC (pg/mL/day)	4786 ± 2133	4938 ± 3405	6112 ± 5155	4695 ± 2861	0.3026

AUC = area-under the curve

^*

P-value by paired t-test for all subjects combined (visit 1 vs visit 2)

^{^}

Acylated (active) ghrelin

^#

p<0.05 visit 2 vs visit 1 by sex