Waist circumference does not predict circulating adiponectin levels in sub-Saharan women

Cardiovascular Diabetology

Volumn 6, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Sobngwi, Eugène ^a,b   Effoe, Valery ^a   Boudou, Philippe ^c   Njamen, Dieudonné ^a   Gautier, Jean François ^c   Mbanya, Jean Claude ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YAOUNDÉ I   (Cameroon)

^b NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c SAINT LOUIS HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADIPONECTIN; GLUCOSE; INSULIN;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; BODY FAT; BODY MASS; CAMEROON; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEPENDENT VARIABLE; DIABETES MELLITUS; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FEMALE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; GLUCOSE CLAMP TECHNIQUE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INSULIN BLOOD LEVEL; INSULIN RESISTANCE; INSULIN SENSITIVITY; MALE; METABOLIC DISORDER; NORMAL HUMAN; OBESITY; PREDICTION; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEX DIFFERENCE; VENOUS BLOOD; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE; AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; BLOOD; BODY COMPOSITION; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SELECTION; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; REFERENCE VALUE;

ADIPONECTIN; ADULT; AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; AGED; BLOOD GLUCOSE; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY MASS INDEX; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SELECTION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REFERENCE VALUES;

EID: 36649007426     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14752840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1475-2840-6-31     Document Type: Article

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