TY - JOUR
T1 - Deficient insulin-like growth factor I in chronic heart failure predicts altered body composition, anabolic deficiency, cytokine and neurohormonal activation
AU - Niebauer, Josef
AU - Pflaum, Claus Dieter
AU - Clark, Andrew L.
AU - Strasburger, Christian J.
AU - Hooper, James
AU - Poole-Wilson, Philip A.
AU - Coats, Andrew J S
AU - Anker, Stefan D.
PY - 1998/8
Y1 - 1998/8
N2 - Background. Recent studies of growth hormone supplementation in chronic heart failure have been associated with variable results. Acquired abnormalities of biochemical parameters of the growth hormone insulin-like growth factor I axis have been associated with severe chronic heart failure. There are suggestions of an acquired growth hormone resistance with deficient insulin-like growth factor I in some patients. Objectives. Therefore, we set out to investigate the clinical and functional status and the degree of cytokine and neurohormonal alteration of chronic heart failure patients with deficient insulin-like growth factor I responses. Methods. Patients with chronic heart failure were divided into two groups according to their insulin-like growth factor I levels (classified according to the manufacturer's assay range in normal controls): low insulin-like growth factor I 104 ng/ml (n = 32; 169 ± 52 ng/ml). Between groups there was no difference in age (low versus high: 65.3 ± 12.1 versus 61.6 ± 9.1 years, p = 0.21), body mass index, aerobic capacity (peak oxygen consumption: low versus high: 15.5 ± 5.2 versus 17.3 ± 6.3 mL/kg/min, p = 0.23), left ventricular ejection fraction, New York Heart Association classification. Results. During quadriceps strength testing, patients with low insulin-like growth factor I had reduced absolute strength (-24%), and strength per unit area muscle (-14%) than patients with normal/high insulin-like growth factor I. Leg muscle cross- sectional area was lower in the low insulin-like growth factor I group (-12% and -13% for right and left legs, respectively). These alterations were accompanied by increased levels of growth hormone (+145%), tumor necrosis factor-alpha (+46%), cortisol/dehydroepiandrosterone ratio (+60%), noradrenaline (+49%) and adrenaline (+136%) (all at least p <0.05). Conclusions. Patients with low insulin-like growth factor I levels show signs of altered body composition, cytokine and neuroendocrine activation, to a greater extent than patients with normal/high levels.
AB - Background. Recent studies of growth hormone supplementation in chronic heart failure have been associated with variable results. Acquired abnormalities of biochemical parameters of the growth hormone insulin-like growth factor I axis have been associated with severe chronic heart failure. There are suggestions of an acquired growth hormone resistance with deficient insulin-like growth factor I in some patients. Objectives. Therefore, we set out to investigate the clinical and functional status and the degree of cytokine and neurohormonal alteration of chronic heart failure patients with deficient insulin-like growth factor I responses. Methods. Patients with chronic heart failure were divided into two groups according to their insulin-like growth factor I levels (classified according to the manufacturer's assay range in normal controls): low insulin-like growth factor I 104 ng/ml (n = 32; 169 ± 52 ng/ml). Between groups there was no difference in age (low versus high: 65.3 ± 12.1 versus 61.6 ± 9.1 years, p = 0.21), body mass index, aerobic capacity (peak oxygen consumption: low versus high: 15.5 ± 5.2 versus 17.3 ± 6.3 mL/kg/min, p = 0.23), left ventricular ejection fraction, New York Heart Association classification. Results. During quadriceps strength testing, patients with low insulin-like growth factor I had reduced absolute strength (-24%), and strength per unit area muscle (-14%) than patients with normal/high insulin-like growth factor I. Leg muscle cross- sectional area was lower in the low insulin-like growth factor I group (-12% and -13% for right and left legs, respectively). These alterations were accompanied by increased levels of growth hormone (+145%), tumor necrosis factor-alpha (+46%), cortisol/dehydroepiandrosterone ratio (+60%), noradrenaline (+49%) and adrenaline (+136%) (all at least p <0.05). Conclusions. Patients with low insulin-like growth factor I levels show signs of altered body composition, cytokine and neuroendocrine activation, to a greater extent than patients with normal/high levels.
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U2 - 10.1016/S0735-1097(98)00226-5
DO - 10.1016/S0735-1097(98)00226-5
M3 - Article
C2 - 9708466
AN - SCOPUS:0032146343
VL - 32
SP - 393
EP - 397
JO - Journal of the American College of Cardiology
JF - Journal of the American College of Cardiology
SN - 0735-1097
IS - 2
ER -