Abstract
The influence of sex hormones on the IGF-I levels in puberty is well known. Some works correlate intrauterine growth with the levels of IGF-I. Our objective was to analyze the IGF-I levels, Growth Hormone (GH), Insulin (I) and the level of sexual steroids, estradiol (E2), testosterone (T), androstenedione (A), dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) and dehydroepiandrosterone sulfate (DHEA-S) in the blood of unbilical cord in 58 normal term NB. Statistical analysis was carried out using the paired Student's t test and the correlation between hormones was dene by Pearson correlation.
We concluded that in the blood of the unbilical cord of normal newborn there is no statistical significant deference between both sexes for the levels of steroid hormones (except androstenedione), GH, Insulin and IGF-I; and that the IGF-I levels do not correlate with any of the parameters analyzed.
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Osoria, M., MemdoƧ, B., Coarooni, S. et al. 37 CORRELATION BETWEEN IGF-I AND STEROID LEVELS IN THE UMBILICAL CORD OF TERM NORMAL NEW (NB). Pediatr Res 32, 255 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1203/00006450-199208000-00060
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1203/00006450-199208000-00060