Serum ghrelin levels are higher in Caucasian men than Japanese men aged 40-49 years

Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 591-593

  Matsunaga Irie, S ^a   Ueshima, H ^b   Zaky, W R ^a   Kadowaki, T ^b   Evans, R W ^a   Okamura, T ^b   Takamiya, T ^a   Kita, Y ^b   Kuller, L H ^a   Sekikawa, Akira ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH GRADUATE SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b SHIGA UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Caucasian; Ethinic difference; Ghrelin; Gut hormones; Japanese

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; GHRELIN; LEPTIN; TRIACYLGLYCEROL;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CAUCASIAN; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; JAPAN; JAPANESE; LIPID ANALYSIS; MALE; METABOLIC PARAMETERS; NORMAL HUMAN; PREVALENCE; SMOKING; UNITED STATES; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE;

EID: 34347375529     PISSN: 14628902     EISSN: 14631326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1463-1326.2006.00627.x     Document Type: Article

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