Gender Differences in the Variability of Gait in Healthy Subjects

Author(s):  
Rita M. Kiss
2012 ◽  
Vol 142 (5) ◽  
pp. S-548
Author(s):  
I-Ju Lin ◽  
Ching-Liang Lu ◽  
Jen-Chuen Hsieh ◽  
Full-Young Chang

2005 ◽  
Vol 90 (3) ◽  
pp. 1563-1569 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiao-Dan Qu ◽  
Irene T. Gaw Gonzalo ◽  
Mohammed Y. Al Sayed ◽  
Pejman Cohan ◽  
Peter D. Christenson ◽  
...  

The aim of this study is to assess whether gender and body mass index (BMI) should be considered in developing thresholds to define GH deficiency, using GH responses to GHRH + arginine (ARG) stimulation and insulin tolerance test (ITT). Thirty-nine healthy subjects (19 males, 20 females; ages 21–50 yr) underwent GHRH + ARG, and another 27 subjects (19 males, 8 females; ages 20–49 yr) underwent ITT. Peak GH response was significantly higher (P = 0.005) after GHRH + ARG than with ITT, and this difference could not be explained by age, gender, or BMI. Peak GH response was negatively correlated with BMI in both tests (GHRH + ARG, r = −0.76; and ITT, r = −0.65). Peak GH response to GHRH + ARG was higher in females than males (P = 0.004; ratio = 2.4), but it was attenuated after eliminating the influence of BMI (P = 0.13; ratio = 1.6). No significant gender differences were found in peak GH responses to ITT, which could be due to the smaller number of female subjects studied. GH response to GHRH + ARG and ITT stimulation is sensitive to BMI differences and less so to gender differences. A higher BMI is associated with a depressed GH response to both stimulation tests. BMI should therefore be considered as a factor when defining the diagnostic cut-off points in the assessment of GH deficiency, whereas whether gender should be likewise used is inconclusive from this study.


2009 ◽  
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pp. 653-657 ◽  
Author(s):  
MIKIKO NAKAGAWA ◽  
YASUKO SEKINE ◽  
MARI ONO ◽  
YAYOI TANIGUCHI ◽  
NAOHIKO TAKAHASHI ◽  
...  

2009 ◽  
Vol 19 ◽  
pp. S311
Author(s):  
M. Fink ◽  
M. Lanzenberger ◽  
M. Savli ◽  
C. Spindelegger ◽  
M. Mitterhauser ◽  
...  

2002 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 171-175 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Minisola ◽  
S. Dionisi ◽  
M. T. Pacitti ◽  
F. Paglia ◽  
V. Carnevale ◽  
...  

2007 ◽  
Vol 54 (3+4) ◽  
pp. 65-72 ◽  
Author(s):  
SACHIKO NISHIURA ◽  
YOUKO NAKASHIMA ◽  
KEIICHIRO MORI ◽  
TAKAYUKI KODAMA ◽  
SATOSHI HIRAI ◽  
...  

2016 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 1127-1131 ◽  
Author(s):  
Biljana Ilkovska ◽  
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Bisera Kotevska ◽  
Georgi Trifunov ◽  
Branimir Kanazirev

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