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Insulin Resistance

Adiponectin-leptin ratio link to insulin resistance parameters examined

Published in Obesity and Diabetes Week, May 30th, 2005

Researchers present correlations between the adiponectin-leptin ratio and parameters of insulin resistance in patients with type 2 diabetes in a recent issue of Metabolism - Clinical and Experimental.

"We studied the correlation between the adiponectin-leptin (A/L) ratio and parameters of insulin resistance in 220 Japanese patients with type 2 diabetes (138 men and 82 women). Body mass index (BMI), triglycerides (TGs), HDL cholesterol (HDL), and preheparin serum lipoprotein lipase (LPL mass) were examined as laboratory parameters of the insulin resistance. The correlations between these laboratory parameters and adiponectin, leptin, or A/L ratio were studied,"...

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