Research Article

Resting Level of Insulin-Like Growth Factor-1 Is Not at Play in Cardiac Enlargement in Endurance-Trained Adolescents

Table 5

Linear regression between cardiac variables and IGF-1 for active group and controls, respectively.

Cardiac variablesBeta ( value)Beta ( value) controlled for BSA
Active groupControlsActive groupControls

Peak VO20.19 (0.238)0.11 (0.565)0.18 (0.260)0.10 (0.651)
LVID0.10 (0.185)0.21 (0.014)0.09 (0.116)0.06 (0.313)
LVPWT0.01 (0.769)0.05 (0.018)0.01 (0.861)0.02 (0.276)
LVM0.40 (0.617)1.52 (0.005)0.24 (0.638)0.63 (0.103)
LA diameter0.14 (0.168)0.11 (0.294)0.12 (0.156)−0.02 (0.810)
LA volume0.32 (0.207)0.27 (0.205)0.27 (0.094)−0.04 (0.821)
RVD1−0.02 (0.879)0.17 (0.089)−0.03 (0.706)0.04 (0.660)
RA diameter0.09 (0.493)0.33 (0.006)0.07 (0.519)0.20 (0.088)
RA area0.07 (0.377)0.16 (0.010)0.06 (0.321)0.06 (0.220)

Beta, unstandardized coefficient. value in parentheses. Bold styling denotes statistical significance. For abbreviations, see previous tables.