Leptin: Adiponectin ratio as an atherosclerotic index in patients with type 2 diabetes: Relationship of the index to carotid intima-media thickness [2]

Diabetologia

Volumn 48, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 2684-2686

  Kotani, K ^a   Sakane, N ^b   Saiga, K ^a   Kurozawa, Y ^a  

^a TOTTORI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL HOSPITAL ORGANIZATION KYOTO MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADIPONECTIN; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; CHOLESTEROL; HEMOGLOBIN A1C; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; INSULIN; LEPTIN; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; TRIACYLGLYCEROL;

ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; ARTERY DIAMETER; ARTERY INTIMA; ARTERY INTIMA PROLIFERATION; ARTERY MEDIA; ATHEROGENESIS; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; CAROTID ARTERY PULSE; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; CLINICAL RESEARCH; DIABETIC MICROANGIOPATHY; DIABETIC OBESITY; DISEASE MARKER; HEMOGLOBIN DETERMINATION; HORMONAL REGULATION; HUMAN; HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; INSULIN BLOOD LEVEL; LETTER; LIPID BLOOD LEVEL; METABOLIC REGULATION; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSE WAVE; SYMPATHETIC TONE; TRIACYLGLYCEROL BLOOD LEVEL;

ADIPONECTIN; AGED; AGING; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY MASS INDEX; CAROTID ARTERIES; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; DIABETIC ANGIOPATHIES; DIABETIC DIET; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEPTIN; MALE; PULSE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SULFONYLUREA COMPOUNDS; TUNICA INTIMA;

EID: 28444488589     PISSN: 0012186X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00125-005-0015-4     Document Type: Letter

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