Serum insulin‐like growth factor I in a random population sample of men and women: relation to age, sex, smoking habits, coffee consumption and physical activity, blood pressure and concentrations of plasma lipids, fibrinogen, parathyroid hormone and osteocalcin

Abstract

The present data can be used as reference values for IGF-I (at least in Caucasians) for the diagnosis of growth hormone disturbances and as guidelines for growth hormone substitution.