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Figure 1 Serum concentrations of insulin-like growth factor-1 (IGF-1), diurnal growth hormone and fasting insulin in the first 12 patients (during the acute phase of infarction and at follow-up) and in controls (p values obtained by analysis of variance and Newman-Keuls test). Patients with acute myocardial infarction (shaded bars); patients after one year (black bars); controls (white bars).