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Nutritional, respiratory, and psychological effects of recombinant human growth hormone in patients undergoing abdominal aortic aneurysm repair.
Plain-language guide to PMID 10338219 (1999): double-blind randomized controlled trial of Exogenous HGH, sermorelin & older GHRPs (why they're passed over).
Key Facts
- PMID
- 10338219
- Journal
- JPEN. Journal of parenteral and enteral nutrition
- Year
- 1999
- Study type
- Randomized Controlled Trial
- Authors
- Barry MC et al. (8 authors)
- DOI
- 10.1177/0148607199023003128
What This Study Did, in Plain Language
What Was Tested
Researchers studied Exogenous HGH, sermorelin & older GHRPs (why they're passed over) in this randomized controlled trial publication.
The aim of this study was to assess the effects of perioperative rhGH on nutritional markers, skeletal muscle function, and psychological well-being in patients undergoing infrarenal, abdominal aortic aneurysm repair.
Why It Was Studied
The effects of rhGH on functional parameters are less clearly defined.
Who Took Part
By PubMed's age tags, the people studied were older adults, both men and women.
Patients were assessed on days -7 and -1 before surgery and days 7, 14, and 60 after surgery.
How the Study Was Run
The researchers set it up as a randomized, double-blind and placebo-controlled study.
Because people in this Exogenous HGH, sermorelin & older GHRPs (why they're passed over) study were split into groups at random, differences between the groups are less likely to reflect who happened to join each one.
Blinding on both sides kept the participants and researchers unaware of who received Exogenous HGH, sermorelin & older GHRPs (why they're passed over).
A placebo (an inactive look-alike) gave the Exogenous HGH, sermorelin & older GHRPs (why they're passed over) group a baseline to be compared against.
What Was Measured
PubMed files the paper under topics including Anxiety, Aortic Aneurysm, Abdominal, Hand Strength, Human Growth Hormone, Insulin-Like Growth Factor I, Muscle, Skeletal and Nutritional Physiological Phenomena.
What This Means in Plain Language
The paper is a randomized, double-blind and placebo-controlled study of Exogenous HGH, sermorelin & older GHRPs (why they're passed over).
Its findings take up roughly 5 sentences of the abstract and are left out here on purpose; the source paper is the place to read them.
The publication is from 1999 (JPEN. Journal of parenteral and enteral nutrition), a journal based in United States.
More context: the Exogenous HGH, sermorelin & older GHRPs (why they're passed over) compound page, all human trials.
Our Notes on the Compound
Exogenous HGH, sermorelin & older GHRPs (why they're passed over): Constant levels suppress the body's own GHRH, raise somatostatin and dull pituitary response.
Related Pages
Source: PubMed record. This explanation is written by PeptideWhiz from the public record. For research and education only. Not medical advice; no dosing information is given.