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Paradoxically high adiponectin and the healthy obese phenotype in obese black and white 16-year-old girls.
Translational research : the journal of laboratory and clinical medicine - 1 Nov 2010
Morrison John A, Glueck Charles J, Daniels Stephen, Wang Ping, Horn Paul, Stroop Davis
Abstract excerpt
Although adiponectin is correlated inversely with obesity, some obese adults without metabolic complications of obesity have paradoxically high adiponectin. Therefore, we assessed adiponectin risk factor relations in 133 obese 16-year-old school girls from a cohort of 448, focusing on paradoxically high adiponectin-risk in obesity and the healthy obese phenotype. Median adiponectin (11.9 mg/L) in nonobese girls...
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