Leptin: A significant indicator of total body fat but not of visceral fat and insulin insensitivity in African-American women

Diabetes

Volumn 45, Issue 11, 1996, Pages 1635-1637

  Dua, Arnavaz ^a   Hennes, Magda I ^a   Hoffmann, Raymond G ^b   Maas, Diana L ^a   Krakower, Glenn R ^a   Sonnenberg, Gabriele E ^a   Kissebah, Ahmed H ^a,c  

^a CLEMENT J ZABLOCKI VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

^c FROEDTERT MEMORIAL LUTHERAN HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE; HORMONE; HUMAN INSULIN; INSULIN; PROTEIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY FAT; BODY MASS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DUAL ENERGY X RAY ABSORPTIOMETRY; FEMALE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HORMONE DETERMINATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INSULIN BLOOD LEVEL; INSULIN SENSITIVITY; INTRAVENOUS GLUCOSE TOLERANCE TEST; NEGRO; NORMAL HUMAN; OBESITY; PREMENOPAUSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0029859209     PISSN: 00121797     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2337/diab.45.11.1635     Document Type: Article

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