Effects of continuous versus intermittent exercise, obesity, and gender on growth hormone secretion.

What Was Tested

This clinical trial looks at Exogenous HGH, sermorelin & older GHRPs (why they're passed over).

The objective of the study was to examine whether intermittent and continuous exercise interventions evoke similar patterns of 24-h GH secretion and whether responses are attenuated in obese subjects or affected by gender.

Why It Was Studied

Obesity attenuates spontaneous GH secretion and the GH response to exercise.

Obese individuals often have low fitness levels, limiting their ability to complete a typical 30-min bout of continuous exercise.

Who Took Part

By PubMed's age tags, the people studied were young adults and adults, both men and women.

This was a repeated-measures design in which each subject served as their own control.

Subjects were healthy nonobese (n = 15) and obese (n = 14) young adults.

How the Study Was Run

This study was conducted at the University of Virginia General Clinical Research Center.

What Was Measured

Obese individuals often have low fitness levels, limiting their ability to complete a typical 30-min bout of continuous exercise.

PubMed files the paper under topics including Anaerobic Threshold, Body Composition, Body Mass Index, Data Interpretation, Statistical, Exercise, Half-Life and Human Growth Hormone.

What This Means in Plain Language

This is a clinical trial of Exogenous HGH, sermorelin & older GHRPs (why they're passed over).

Its findings take up roughly 4 sentences of the abstract and are left out here on purpose; the source paper is the place to read them.

The publication is from 2008 (The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism), a journal based in United States.

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