Talking to your friends and neighbors wonât give you the ultimate answer you seek. There is one way, and only one way, to diagnose if you really do have a Human Growth Hormone Deficiency. A blood test will allow you to discover if you have a low IGF-1 level.
Coronary angiography. Coronary angiography is a procedure that uses a special dye (contrast material) and x-rays to see how blood flows through the arteries in your heart. Coronary angiography is often done along with cardiac catheterization. This is a procedure which measures pressures in the heart chambers.
Coronary angiography is an x-ray examination of the coronary arteries which are the tubes a few millimetres wide that lie on the outside surface of the heart, taking blood to the heart muscle. Just as an engine needs petrol, the heart needs blood to do its job of pumping blood around the body.