Overture for growth hormone: requiem for interleukin-6?

What Was Tested

The paper reports a study of Exogenous HGH, sermorelin & older GHRPs (why they're passed over), published as a randomized controlled trial.

Music has been used for therapeutic purposes since the beginning of cultural history.

Who Took Part

The age groups tagged for this paper are middle-aged adults and older adults, both men and women.

The researchers conducted a randomized study in ten critically ill patients to identify mechanisms of music-induced relaxation using a special selection of slow movements of Mozart's piano sonatas.

These sonatas were analyzed for compositional elements of relaxation.

How the Study Was Run

The researchers set it up as a randomized study.

Random assignment meant chance, not the researchers, decided who got Exogenous HGH, sermorelin & older GHRPs (why they're passed over) and who got the comparison, which limits bias.

The researchers measured circulatory variables, brain electrical activity, serum levels of stress hormones and cytokines, requirements for sedative drugs, and level of sedation before and at the end of a 1-hr therapeutic session.

What Was Measured

The subject headings attached to it are Blood Pressure, Critical Illness, Dehydroepiandrosterone, Epinephrine, Human Growth Hormone, Hypnotics and Sedatives and Hypothalamo-Hypophyseal System.

What This Means in Plain Language

The paper is a randomized study of Exogenous HGH, sermorelin & older GHRPs (why they're passed over).

Results are reported in around 5 sentences of the abstract; we leave them to the paper itself rather than summarise them.

The publication is from 2007 (Critical care medicine), a journal based in United States.

More context: the Exogenous HGH, sermorelin & older GHRPs (why they're passed over) compound page, all human trials.