Table 2.

The serum oxytocin (OXY), brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF), and tropomyosin-related kinase B receptor (TrkB) levels in the adolescent anorexic inpatients in the acute stage of the disease (AN-T1) as well as after partial weight recovery (AN-T2), and in the control group (CG).

	OXY (pg/ml)	BDNF (ng/ml)	TrkB (ng/ml)
AN-T1	127.46 ± 58.68	28.66 ± 6.70	1.67 ± 0.54
AN-T2	127.90 ± 106.13	30.75 ± 8.34	1.93 ± 0.53
CG	70.72 ± 39.75	34.66 ± 7.40	1.74 ± 0.53
AN-T1 vs. CG
df	58	67	67
p	0.000	0.001	0.584
t	4.385	-3.521	-5.551
md (95% cl)	56.740 (30.760–82.719)	-5.998 (-9.398–(-2.597)	-0.071 (-0.330–0.187)
power	0.99	0.98	0.09
AN-T1 vs. AN-T2
df	29	38	38
p	0.973	0.057	0.000
t	-0.034	-1.965	-4.102
md (95% cl)	-0.447 (-27.274–26.379)	-2.087 (-4.239–0.063)	-0.260 (-0.388–(-0.131)
power	0.05	0.30	0.72
AN-T2 vs. CG
df	58	67	67
p	0.008	0.047	0.147
t	2.764	-2.025	1.468
md (95% cl)	57.187 (15.769–98.604)	-3.910 (-7.764–(-0.056)	0.188 (-0.067–0.445)
power	0.83	0.55	0.31