Plasma leptin levels in healthy children and adolescents: Dependence on body mass index, body fat mass, gender, pubertal stage, and testosterone

Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 82, Issue 9, 1997, Pages 2904-2910

  Blum, Werner F ^a,b,d   Englaro, Piera ^b   Hanitsch, Sigrid ^b   Juul, Anders ^c   Hertel, Niels T ^c   Müller, Jorn ^c   Skakkebæk, Niels E ^c   Heiman, Mark L ^a   Birkett, Martin ^a   Attanasio, Andrea M ^a   Kiess, Wieland ^b   Rascher, Wolfgang ^b  

^a Lilly Research Laboratories   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL GIESSEN   (Germany)

^c Rigshospitalet   (Denmark)

^d LILLY DEUTSCHLAND GMBH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LEPTIN; TESTOSTERONE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY FAT; BODY MASS; CHILD; FEMALE; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBERTY; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; SEX DIFFERENCE; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGING; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY MASS INDEX; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEPTIN; MALE; PROTEINS; PUBERTY; REFERENCE VALUES; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 9844227914     PISSN: 0021972X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/jc.82.9.2904     Document Type: Article

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