Fasting serum insulin concentrations are associated with QTc duration independent of serum leptin, percent body fat, and BMI [14]

Diabetes Care

Volumn 22, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 1917-1918

  Kazumi, Tsutomu ^a,d   Kawaguchi, Akira ^b   Katoh, Jun Ichi ^a   Ikeda, Yoshinori ^a   Kishi, Katsuhiko ^a   Yoshino, Gen ^c  

^a Hyogo Rehabilitation Center Hospital   (Japan)

^b KOBE UNIVERSITY OF MERCANTILE MARINE   (Japan)

^c TOHO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^d Hyogo Rehabilitation Center Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INSULIN; LEPTIN;

BODY FAT; BODY MASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; INSULIN BLOOD LEVEL; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LETTER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; QT INTERVAL; SYMPATHETIC TONE;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ADULT; BODY MASS INDEX; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FASTING; HUMANS; INSULIN; LEPTIN; MALE;

EID: 0032751928     PISSN: 01495992     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2337/diacare.22.11.1917     Document Type: Letter

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