Figure 10From: Amino acid infusion during anesthesia attenuates the surgery induced decline in IGF-1 and diminishes the "diabetes of injury"Median, first and third quartile for IGFBP-1 by groups. Patient D5s sample day 3 is withdrawn in these figure since it is considered to be a false fasting sample (figure 2 - 4). Preoperative difference between group C and the other groups in IGFBP-1 is marked C. Significant (p < 0.05) difference between baseline and the first postoperative day is marked #.Back to article page