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Original Article
Growth hormone deficiency due to sports-related head trauma is associated with impaired cognitive performance in amateur boxers and kickboxers as revealed by P300 auditory event-related potentials
Article first published online: 10 APR 2013
DOI: 10.1111/cen.12037
© 2012 Blackwell Publishing Ltd
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How to Cite
Tanriverdi, F., Suer, C., Yapislar, H., Kocyigit, I., Selcuklu, A., Unluhizarci, K., Casanueva, F. F. and Kelestimur, F. (2013), Growth hormone deficiency due to sports-related head trauma is associated with impaired cognitive performance in amateur boxers and kickboxers as revealed by P300 auditory event-related potentials. Clinical Endocrinology, 78: 730–737. doi: 10.1111/cen.12037
Publication History
- Issue published online: 10 APR 2013
- Article first published online: 10 APR 2013
- Accepted manuscript online: 20 SEP 2012 05:39AM EST
- Manuscript Revised: 31 AUG 2012
- Manuscript Accepted: 31 AUG 2012
- Manuscript Revised: 18 AUG 2012
- Manuscript Received: 4 MAY 2012
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- Scientific and Technical Research Council of Turkey. Grant Number: SBAG-3017
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Summary
Objectives
It has been recently reported that boxing and kickboxing may cause pituitary dysfunction, GH deficiency in particular. The strong link between poor cognitive performance and GH deficiency due to causes other than head trauma and the improvement of cognitive function after GH replacement therapy have been previously shown. P300 auditory event-related potential (ERP) measure is widely used to evaluate cognitive performance. In this study, we investigated the relation between the GH-IGF-I axis and cognitive performance in boxers and kickboxers.
Design and patients
Forty-one actively competing or retired male boxers (n: 27) and kickboxers (n: 14) with a mean age of 29·04 ± 9·30 year and 14 age- and education-matched healthy male controls were included in the study. For neuropsychological tests, the mini-mental state examination (MMSE) and Quality of Life Assessment of GH Deficiency in Adults (QoL-AGHDA) questionnaires were administered. Moreover, cognitive performance was evaluated according to P300 ERPs.
Results
Nine of 41 (21·9%) athletes had GH deficiency. P300 amplitudes were lower at all electrode sites in the GH-deficient group than in controls, and the differences were statistically significant at Fz and Oz electrode sites (P < 0·05). When GH-deficient athletes were compared with GH-sufficient athletes, the P300 amplitudes were lower at all electrode sites in the GH-deficient group; these differences were statistically significant at Fz, Pz and Cz electrode sites (P < 0·05). In all athletes, there were significant negative correlations between IGF-I levels vs P300 latencies, and there were significant positive correlations between IGF-I levels vs P300 amplitudes (P < 0·05).
Conclusion
This study provides the first electrophysiological evidence for the close relation between the P300 ERPs and the GH-IGF-I axis in boxers and kickboxers.