Racial differences in plasma leptin concentrations in obese postmenopausal women

Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 82, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 315-317

  Nicklas, Barbara J ^a   Toth, Michael J ^b   Goldberg, Andrew P ^b   Poehlman, Eric T ^b  

^a BALTIMORE VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LEPTIN;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ADULT; AEROBIC CAPACITY; AGED; BASAL METABOLIC RATE; BODY COMPOSITION; ENERGY EXPENDITURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMAN TISSUE; INCIDENCE; NORMAL HUMAN; NOTE; OBESITY; POSTMENOPAUSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; RACE DIFFERENCE;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; AGED; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY CONSTITUTION; BODY WEIGHT; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEPTIN; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; POSTMENOPAUSE; PROTEINS;

EID: 0031025129     PISSN: 0021972X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/jc.82.1.315     Document Type: Note

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