... and after treatment with recombinant human growth hormone and in 10 patients with untreated acromegaly. 2. Based on total-body potassium determined by whole-body 40 K counting, patients with acromegaly had increased lean body mass, whereas lack of growth hormone was associated with decreased lean body mass...

...M. H. Snow; D. A. Piercy; Valerie Robson; R. Wilkinson 1. In 29 patients with acromegaly, plasma renin activity and growth hormone were measured during fasting and recumbency on free diet. Exchangeable sodium was measured in all cases and expressed as a percentage of the expected value on the basis...

...R. H. Johnson; M. J. Rennie 1. Seven patients with acromegaly and nine controls were studied before, during and after 30 min of moderate steady exercise on a bicycle ergometer. Venous blood samples were taken for estimation of growth hormone (HGH), immunoreactive insulin (IRI), pyruvate, lactate...