For these patients, it is prescribed as a treatment for the reduction of excess abdominal fat and shown to decrease the visceral adipose tissue and waist circumference [2]
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How-ever, the bioavailability of IGF-1 depends heavily on multiple IGFBPs, IGFBP-rPs and an interplay between IGF-1, IGF-2, Insulin and their receptors, which complicates the interpretation of IGF-1 test results
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