Active ghrelin levels across time and associations with leptin and anthropometrics in healthy ache Amerindian women of Paraguay

American Journal of Human Biology

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 352-354

  Bribiescas, Richard G ^a   Betancourt, Jaime ^b   Torres, Angélica M ^a   Reiches, Meredith ^c  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GHRELIN; LEPTIN;

ADULT; AMERICAN INDIAN; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CALORIC INTAKE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PARAGUAY; PILOT STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; ANTHROPOMETRY; BODY MASS INDEX; FEMALE; GHRELIN; HUMANS; HUNGER; INDIANS, SOUTH AMERICAN; LEPTIN; PARAGUAY; TIME;

EID: 43449118121     PISSN: 10420533     EISSN: 15206300     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajhb.20699     Document Type: Article

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