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Decreased sex hormone binding globulin (SHBG) and insulin-like growth factor binding protein (IGFBP-1) in extreme obesity.

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:Obesity may be characterized by abnormal sex steroid secretion and reduced sex hormone binding globulin (SHBG) which in turn is related to fat distribution and insulin secretion. Recent in-vitro and in-vivo evidence suggests that insulin is the common mechanism regulating the secretion of SHBG and insulin-like growth factor small binding protein (IGFBP-1). IGFBP-1 appears not only to be a carrier for insulin growth factors (IGFs) but also to play an active role in growth processes, independent of growth hormone secretion. We have examined the possible relationship between fasting insulin, SHBG, testosterone, IGF-1, IGFBP-1 and fat distribution in 25 extremely obese, menstruating women (mean weight 107 +/- 3 kg) with normal glucose tolerance. Fat distribution was assessed from measurements of the waist to hip ratio (W/H). The obese women showed an elevated fasting insulin (mean +/- SEM; 21 +/- 2 mumol/l), a normal IGF-1, but reduced IGFBP-1 (14.6 +/- 2 micrograms/l); in 15 women IGFBP-1 levels were undetectable by the present assay. In addition, SHBG levels were reduced in the obese women (24 +/- 2 nmol/l) but total testosterone values (1.9 +/- 0.1 nmol/l) were normal. The elevated fasting insulin levels were positively correlated with increasing upper segment obesity as expressed by a rising W/H ratio (P less than 0.01, r2 = 0.306) and inversely correlated with SHBG (P less than 0.01, r2 = 0.483). Similarly, reduced SHBG values showed an inverse correlation with increasing W/H ratio (P less than 0.001, r2 = 0.383). No correlation was found between IGFBP-1 and W/H ratio but a strong positive correlation was seen between IGFBP-1 and SHBG (P less than 0.001, r2 = 0.466). Furthermore, an equally significant inverse correlation was found between IGFBP-1 and insulin levels (P less than 0.001, r2 = 0.474).(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)

journal_name

Clin Endocrinol (Oxf)

journal_title

Clinical endocrinology

authors

Weaver JU,Holly JM,Kopelman PG,Noonan K,Giadom CG,White N,Virdee S,Wass JA

doi

10.1111/j.1365-2265.1990.tb00507.x

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

1990-09-01 00:00:00

pages

415-22

issue

eissn

0300-0664

issn

1365-2265

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pub_type

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Decreased sex hormone binding globulin (SHBG) and insulin-like growth factor binding protein (IGFBP-1) in extreme obesity.