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A significant negative correlation has been found in severe cirrhotics between HGH and proteinemia and HGH and albuminemia 60 min after insulin injection, as well as a significant positive correlation between HGH and oestrogenuria; these correlations were not observed in moderate cirrhotics. In view of the shape of the HGH curve it is considered likely that hypoproteinemia, hypoalbuminemia and possibly oestrogenuria cause a rapid increase of HGH secretion and slow down hormone degradation.
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A Short Communication of this manuscript was submitted to the Eighth Congress of the International Diabetes Federation, Burssels, Belgium, July 19–20, 1973, and published in Excerpta Medica, International Congress Series No. 280, p. 118.
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de Portugal-Alvarez, J., Clamagirand, C.P., Souto, J.M. et al. Relationship between growth hormone, insulin, and urinary oestrogens in hepatic cirrhosis. Acta diabet. lat 11, 1–8 (1974). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02581932
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