Gender differences in the association of visceral and subcutaneous adiposity with adiponectin in African Americans: the Jackson Heart Study
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...subcutaneous abdominal fat confer different metabolic risk profiles, which are influenced by ethnicity and gender [20]....
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...This difference could be partly because of the gender differences in the association of visceral and subcutaneous adiposity with adiponectin [20] and the stronger visceral fat-associated sympathoactivation seen in young boys versus girls [11], but a better explanation may require further research....
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...However, this study did not adjust the confounding effects from visceral fat, which is generally positively associated with PBF [18,20]....
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...Direct measures of adiposity have rarely been utilized and were predominantly explored in African, Caucasian, and Hispanic American populations [15,16]....
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..., leptin [42], adiponectin [43], tumor necrosis factor-α (TNF-α) [44], plasminogenactivator inhibitor type-1 (PAI-1) [45] and resistin [46]....
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...Several studies have demonstrated that adipose tissue actively produces a variety of locally and systemically functioning bioactive molecules that interact in various obesity-related diseases, e.g., leptin [42], adiponectin [43], tumor necrosis factor-α (TNF-α) [44], plasminogenactivator inhibitor type-1 (PAI-1) [45] and resistin [46]....
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..., leptin [42], adiponectin [43], tumor necrosis factor-α (TNF-α) [44], plasminogen-activator inhibitor type-1 (PAI-1) [45] and resistin [46]....
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..., leptin [42], adiponectin [43], tumor necrosis factor-α (TNF-α) [44], plasminogen-activator inhibitor type-1 (PAI-1) [45] and resistin [46]....
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