Table 3.

Correlation coefficients for the first-year growth response as dependent variable, using age, different GH and IGF variables at start or at 10 days of treatment in Noonan group and Turner group, respectively.

	Noonan group		Turner group
Predictors	r*	p	r*	p
Age at start of GH	-0.53	0.006	-0.15	ns
24hour GH profile values before start
GH baseline	0.63	0.0007	-0.33	0.04
GH mean	0.01	ns	-0.41	0.009
GHmax	-0.14	ns	-0.21	ns
number of peaks	0.14	ns	-0.01	ns
peak height	-0.19	ns	-0.33	0.04
AUCt	0.02	ns	-0.42	0.007
At start
IGFI SDS	-0.49	0.01	-0.28	ns
IGFBP3 SDS	-0.07	ns	-0.35	0.06
IGFI/IGFBP3 SDS	-0.47	0.02	-0.19	ns
At 10 days
Δ IGFI SDS	0.70	0.004	0.08	ns
Δ IGFBP3 SDS	0.59	0.02	0.06	ns
Δ IGFI/IGFBP3 SDS	0.35	ns	0.06	ns

*by Spearman correlation coefficient. ns, non-significant.