{"title":"Evaluation of blood glucose, insulin, growth hormone and cortisol response in heroin addicts.","authors":"A H Ghodse","doi":"","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Oral glucose tolerance tests were performed on 16 addicts and 16 control subjects. A flat delayed glucose response was demonstrated, with hyperinsulinaemia, elevated plasma growth hormone and normal plasma cortisol in heroin addicts compared with control subjects. These studies suggest a relative insulin resistance in addicts which might be mediated by the elevated growth hormone or some other pharmacologic effect of the chronic opiate abuse.</p>","PeriodicalId":76301,"journal":{"name":"Pahlavi medical journal","volume":"8 2","pages":"141-56"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1977-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Pahlavi medical journal","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Oral glucose tolerance tests were performed on 16 addicts and 16 control subjects. A flat delayed glucose response was demonstrated, with hyperinsulinaemia, elevated plasma growth hormone and normal plasma cortisol in heroin addicts compared with control subjects. These studies suggest a relative insulin resistance in addicts which might be mediated by the elevated growth hormone or some other pharmacologic effect of the chronic opiate abuse.