Table 5.

Changes in serum levels of insulin-like growth factor 1, follistatin, and brain-derived neurotropic factor during the intervention.

	Group	Baseline	24 Weeks	p for Time	Changes	p for Groups
IGF-1 (mg/mL)	B	102 ± 32	99 ± 32	0.292	−3 ± 13	0.316
	S	101 ± 40	105 ± 33	0.589	4 ± 28
Follistatin (pg/mL) *	B	1312 (711–1807)	1419 (868–1857)	0.675	68 (−316–319)	0.611
	S	1091 (889–2106)	1232 (907–2225)	0.595	−38 (−149–366)
BDNF (pg/mL)	B	23,667 ± 4452	23,011 ± 5020	0.511	−655 ± 4376	0.439
	S	22,130 ± 4919	20,093 ± 6210	0.214	−2037 ± 6068

Data are mean ± SD or median (interquartile range). * log-transformed variables are used.