Relationship between IGF-I Concentration and Metabolic Profile in Children with Growth Hormone Deficiency: The Influence of Children’s Nutritional State as well as the Ghrelin, Leptin, Adiponectin, and Resistin Serum Concentrations

Table 2

Correlation coefficients between IGF-I/IGFBP-3 molar ratio and individual analysed parameters in the total group of children and separately in the GHD group.

Correlation between IGF-I/IGFBP-3 molar ratio and the following items	Total group (GHD and controls)	GHD group
Height SDS	+0.01	+0.16
BMI SDS for HA	+0.26	+0.24
Ghrelin	−0.35	−0.34
Leptin	+0.29	+0.34
Adiponectin	−0.15	−0.41
Resistin	−0.24	0.0
Triglycerides	+0.4	+0.59
Cholesterol	+0.22	+0.05
LDL-cholesterol	+0.16	+0.08
HDL-cholesterol	−0.04	−0.59
Glucose	+0.18	+0.2
Insulin	+0.41	+0.48
IRI HOMA	+0.36	+0.41

In the individual rows of the table, the correlation coefficients designated with the asterisks differ significantly from each other.