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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Dec 12.
Published in final edited form as: J Clin Psychiatry. 2018 Jan-Feb;79(1):17m11585. doi: 10.4088/JCP.17m11585

Table 1:

Baseline clinical characteristics of the study participants

Relamorelin
(n=10)
Placebo
(n=12)
p-value
Age (years) 28.9 ± 2.4 28.9 ± 1.9 0.99
% Ideal body weight 79.9 ± 1.5 81.0 ± 2.1 0.67
Weight (kg) 48.1 ± 1.5 48.9 ± 1.8 0.73
Height (cm) 165.2 ± 2.3 165.3 ± 1.9 0.97
BMI (kg/m2) 17.6 ± 0.4 17.8 ± 0.4 0.58
Duration of anorexia nervosa (years) 13.2 ± 2.2 14.8 ± 2.2 0.60
Gastric emptying time (minutes)* 89 [69.5, 110.8] 85.5 [74.0, 125.8] 0.60
Resting energy expenditure (kcals/day) 1040 ± 40 1055 ± 53 0.83
Beck Depression Inventory-2 score 15.2 ± 2.8 12.3 ± 2.1 0.41
Visual Analog Scale – Hungry* 6.3 [2.2, 8.1] 3.0 [1.0, 5.5] 0.15
Total ghrelin (pg/ml)* 878 [722, 1191] 1131 [825, 1263] 0.34
Acylated ghrelin (pg/ml)* 162 [118, 293] 140 [52, 366] 0.65
Desacyl ghrelin (pg/ml)* 422 [225, 678] 444 [318, 599] 0.87
IGF-1 (ng/ml) 156 ± 10 171 ± 14 0.39
Serum glucose (mg/dL) 77.8 ± 2.3 83.1 ± 2.4 0.13

Mean ± SEM

*

median [interquartile range]