However, the students with PTSD had significantly lower levels of glucose, insulin and homeostasis model assessment of insulin resistance (HOMA-IR) than the students without PTSD in the C allele carriers of GHSR rs495225 after the adjustment for age, gender and body mass index (BMI), but higher levels of TG and TG/HDL-C in the TT homozygotes.
In the present study, we examined the 171T/C polymorphism of the ghrelin receptor (growth hormone secretagogue receptor, GHSR) gene in patients diagnosed with EDs, because the subjects having ghrelin gene polymorphism (Leu72Met) was not detected in a Japanese population, previously.