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Record W2068160366 · doi:10.1159/000191321

How Do We Best Measure Growth Hormone Action?

2009· review· en· W2068160366 on OpenAlex
H. Guyda

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affAt least one author lists a Canadian institution in the pinned OpenAlex snapshot.

Bibliographic record

VenueHormone Research · 2009
Typereview
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicGrowth Hormone and Insulin-like Growth Factors
Canadian institutionsMontreal Children's Hospital
Fundersnot available
KeywordsEndocrinologyInternal medicineAnabolismOsteocalcinBone remodelingChemistryGrowth hormoneBone mineralAlkaline phosphataseHormoneBiologyMedicineBiochemistryEnzymeOsteoporosis

Abstract

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Growth hormone (GH) is a powerful anabolic hormone with a broad spectrum of action that has been assessed with three general parameters: auxological to assess the growth response; biochemical to measure anabolic effects; and body composition. In childhood, linear growth response is assessed with height, short-term changes in height velocity (HV), and attainment of final adult height, which may not be concordant. In both children and adults, the biochemical indices utilized to predict and/or monitor response to GH therapy have included: (1) nonspecific indices: glucose, insulin, urea, protein synthesis, lipid metabolism, and lipoproteins; (2) more specific indices of the GH-IGF axis: GH binding protein, IGF-I, IGFBP-3, and acid-labile subunit; or (3) indices of bone and mineral metabolism: calcium, phosphate, bone alkaline phosphatase, osteocalcin, propeptides of procollagen type I and III, and bone mineral content. For body composition, body mass index, total body % fat, total body or extracellular water, and bone mineral density have been addressed most frequently. Modest changes with wide variability have been observed with most measurements. GH dose is a very significant positive factor for all parameters. Few of the currently available tests can reliably predict and/or monitor response to GH therapy. Of these, serum IGF-I appears to offer the best integrated indicator of the action of GH throughout all age groups.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.003
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow), Research integrity, Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow), Research integrity
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Review · Consensus signal: Review
Teacher disagreement score0.826
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0030.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0020.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0050.002
Bibliometrics0.0030.005
Science and technology studies0.0010.001
Scholarly communication0.0010.001
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0020.007
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.002

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.251
GPT teacher head0.434
Teacher spread0.183 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it