Table 2 Change in 10 year-old Mongolian children's hormone and growth factor concentrations before and after one month of drinking 710 ml of American UHT whole milk daily.
From: Milk consumption and the prepubertal somatotropic axis
Mongolia | Mean | 50th percentile | 75th percentile | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Growth Hormone (ng/ml) | Pre | 2.38 ± 3.27 | 1.23 | 2.60 |
Post | 3.42 ± 4.07 | 2.14 | 5.28 | |
p-value | NA* | 0.23 | 0.005 | |
IGF-I (ng/ml) | Pre | 290.93 ± 93.98 | 270.70 | 346.95 |
Post | 358.34 ± 125.62 | 333.56 | 449.29 | |
p-value | <0.0001 | 0.04 | 0.03 | |
IGF-I/IGFBP-3 | Pre | 0.064 ± 0.016 | 0.062 | 0.068 |
Post | 0.073 ± 0.019 | 0.072 | 0.082 | |
p-value | <0.0001 | 0.009 | 0.007 |