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

Table 4

Bivariate correlation of cardiac dimensions vs hormones, all participants.

	Cortisol	IGF-1	IGF-2	FSH	GH	LH	Prolactin	TSH
Peak VO2	0.01	0.23	0.08	0.06	−0.12	0.03	0.20	0.02
LVID	0.01	0.42	−0.001	0.24	−0.21	0.16	0.05	−0.09
LVPWT	0.05	0.27	0.03	0.05	−0.13	0.01	0.23	0.10
LVM	0.02	0.34	0.02	0.12	−0.17	0.11	0.12	−0.04
LA diameter	0.001	0.29	−0.07	0.29	−0.13	0.11	−0.05	0.003
LA volume	0.01	0.31	0.004	0.18	−0.26	−0.04	0.14	0.05
RVD1	0.07	0.22	−0.15	0.00	−0.22	0.02	−0.06	−0.11
RA diameter	0.03	0.38	−0.07	−0.09	−0.14	−0.14	−0.04	−0.14
RA area	−0.01	0.37	−0.08	−0.03	−0.12	−0.12	−0.02	−0.11

Data are expressed with Pearson’s correlation coefficient. The asterisk and bold styling denotes statistical significance <0.05. VO₂, oxygen uptake. For hormone and cardiac dimensions abbreviation, see previous tables.