Review Article
The Insulin-Like Growth Factor System and Nutritional Assessment
Table 3
Effect of malnutrition and obesity on serum levels of proteins of the IGF axis.
| Protein | Malnutrition | References | Obesity | References |
| IGF-I | ↓ | [36, 37] | U/↑/↓ | [38–45] | IGF-II | ↓ | [34, 46, 47] | ↑ | [48, 49] | Free IGF-I | ↓ | [50, 51] | U/↑/↓ | [43–45, 48, 49, 52] | Free IGF-II | ↓ | [49] | ↑ | [49] | IGFBP-1 | ↑ | [51] | ↓ | [53, 54] | IGFBP-2 | ↑ | [34] | ↓ | [55, 56] | IGFBP-3 | ↓ | [57–59] | ↑ | [60] |
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Key: ↑ increase; ↓ decrease; U unchanged.
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