Endocrine Abstracts

Background: We previously demonstrated that elderly patients with GHD have increased and young GHD patients have reduced cardiac sympathovagal balance. Therefore we decided to investigate whether the relationship between age and cardiac sympathovagal balance is altered in GHD compared to healthy controls.Method: HRV, which indirectly measures cardiac sympathovagal balance, was measured in 22 untreated GHD patients (13 F; mean age 47.4 yrs; range 19-73 y...