... profileof these patients.Competing interestsThe authors declare that they have no competing interests.Authors' contributionsFG, FO, GL, AC, CV, MGT and SP conceived of the study,participated ... (IU/liter) 10 .5 ± 1. 7 10 .1 ± 1. 6 0.725LH (IU/liter) 24.2 ± 3.3 23.5 ± 3 .1 0. 811 PRL (ng/ml) 10 .5 ± 1. 3 10 .2 ± 1. 1 0.797E2 (pmol/liter) 12 0 ± 30.5 11 8 ± 26 .1 0.502P (nmol/liter) 1. 2 ± 0.4 1. 3 ... nature of the present study, itcannot be determined whether impaired autonomic func-tion is the cause or effect of systemic inflammation. Apotential limitation of our data is that we did not...