Metabolic Disorder Risk Factor

Low interleukin-10 levels associated with metabolic syndrome in obese women

Published in Obesity and Diabetes Week, May 5th, 2003

Obese women with abnormally low interleukin-10 levels were significantly more likely to have metabolic syndrome than were similar women with higher IL-10 levels.

According to recent research from Italy, "The potential role of anti-inflammatory cytokines in human obesity is unknown. We tested the hypothesis that low serum IL-10 concentrations associate with the metabolic syndrome in obese women."

"Compared with 50 matched nonobese women, the prevalence of the metabolic syndrome ({{>=}}3 of the following abnormalities: waist circumference >88 cm; triglycerides >1.69 mmol/L; high density lipoprotein cholesterol <1.29 mmol/L; blood pressure,...

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