Higher levels of adiponectin in American than in Japanese men despite obesity.

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Published in Metabolism on December 01, 2006

Authors

Takashi Kadowaki1, Akira Sekikawa, Tomonori Okamura, Tomoko Takamiya, Atsunori Kashiwagi, Wahid R Zaky, Hiroshi Maegawa, Aiman El-Saed, Yasuyuki Nakamura, Rhobert W Evans, Daniel Edmundowicz, Yoshikuni Kita, Lewis H Kuller, Hirotsugu Ueshima

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Health Science, Shiga University of Medical Science, Shiga 520-2192, Japan. kadowaki@belle.shiga-med.ac.jp

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