...Alexia Sophie Peña; Jennifer Harrington; Sarah Kate Peters Black; Roger Gent; Craig Hirte; Jennifer J. Couper; Esko Wiltshire Introduction: Youth with obesity have abnormal vascular function that relates to the anti-atherogenic adipose-derived hormone, adiponectin. The distribution of adiponectin...

..., and several factors secreted by adipocytes have been cited as possible mediators. Among them, insulin [ 28 ], leptin [ 13, 29 ], adiponectin [ 30 ], growth and differentiation factor (GDF)-5 [ 12 ], and estradiol [ 31 ] have demonstrated direct effects on EGP chondrocytes, as described below. An intact...

... years, range 25-38), assessed 10-28 years after ALL diagnosis, had higher percentages of body (p < 0.05) and trunk fat mass (p < 0.05), and a lower body lean mass (p < 0.001). Survivors had significantly higher levels of leptin and adiponectin and lower levels of insulin-like growth factor...

...M.A. Donoso; M.T. Muñoz-Calvo; V. Barrios; G. Martínez; F. Hawkins; J. Argente Background: Modifications in body fat in obese patients during puberty determine changes in adipokines that affect insulin sensitivity. Aims: We hypothesized that the leptin/adiponectin (L/A) ratio and free leptin index...

... obese subjects completed the 3-month intervention and were compared with 20 age-, gender- and maturity-matched controls. Subjects underwent anthropometric measurements (weight, height, BMI percentile and waist circumference), blood tests (IL-6, CRP, leptin, adiponectin, insulin, IGF-I and glucose...

...Pía Riestra; Alicia Garcia-Anguita; Lorena Ortega; Carmen Garcés Background/Aims: Adiponectin is an adipose tissue-derived adipocytokine which, starting at puberty, is present in lower levels in males than in females. In adults, a relationship between adiponectin levels and sexual hormones has been...

... are related to fatness and cardiorespiratory fitness (VO 2peak ) in adolescents. Methods: Body mass and height, skinfolds and blood pressure of 413 adolescents (mean age 13.4 ± 0.3 years) were measured. Circulating fasting levels of glucose, insulin, lipids, adiponectin, C-reactive protein (CRP), tumor...

...Yeon Joung Oh; Hyo-Kyoung Nam; Young Jun Rhie; Sang Hee Park; Kee-Hyoung Lee Background/Aims: The current worldwide increases of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) in children coincide with increases in the prevalence of obesity. We investigated the insulin resistance and adiponectin levels...

...Javier De Las Heras; Sojung Lee; Fida Bacha; Hala Tfayli; Silva Arslanian Aims: To examine the cross-sectional relationship between blood pressure (BP) and (1) in vivo insulin sensitivity (IS) and (2) circulating adiponectin levels in overweight adolescents, and to determine if these relationships...

...Bjorn Ogland; Pål R. Romundstad; Hege Vefring; Michele R. Forman; Stein Tore Nilsen; Lars J. Vatten Aims: To compare cord blood concentrations of total adiponectin in the offspring of pregnancies with and without preeclampsia. Methods: Using a Luminex analyzer, cord blood adiponectin was measured...

...B. Andersson; L.M.S. Carlsson; B. Carlsson; K. Albertsson-Wikland; R. Bjarnason Background/Aims: Adiponectin is secreted by adipose tissue and circulates in human plasma at high levels. Decreased adiponectin levels are associated with insulin resistance and obesity. The aim of this study...

...Makoto Inoue; Kazuo Itabashi; Yuya Nakano; Yasuko Nakano; Takashi Tobe Aims: High-molecular-weight adiponectin (HMW-ad) is an active form of adiponectin. No information is available with respect to HMW-ad in neonates. The aims of this study were to examine whether HMW-ad is present in cord blood...

...Germán Iñiguez; Isabel M. Torrealba; Alejandra Avila; Fernando Cassorla; Ethel Codner Aim: To study the adiponectin levels during puberty in girls with type 1 diabetes mellitus (DM1) and their relationship to body mass index (BMI), Tanner stage, ovarian volume (OV), and androgen levels. Methods: We...

... for auxology and IGF-I, IGFBP-3, leptin, ghrelin, adiponectin, lipids and OGTT results in a prospective multicenter study. Intervention: GH (Genotropin®) in a dose of 50 µg/kg/day for 1 year. Results: Height standard deviation score (SDS) increased from –3.9 ± 1.5 to –3.5 ± 1.4 (p = 0.000) on therapy. BMI did...

... growth factor binding protein-1, leptin, adiponectin and a lipid profile. Thereafter an oral glucose tolerance test was performed. PWS patients were smaller at birth and a higher proportion displayed premature pubarche. No differences were found in testosterone, androstenedione, sex hormone binding...

...Bettina C. Gohlke; Peter Bartmann; Rolf Fimmers; Agnes Huber; Kurt Hecher; Christian L. Roth Background: Various studies have demonstrated an increased risk for adult diseases in newborns born small-for-gestational-age (SGA). Adiponectin and resistin can be detected in cord blood and are suggested...

...Assumpta Caixàs; Olga Giménez-Palop; Gabriel Giménez-Pérez; Neus Potau; Eugenio Berlanga; José-Miguel González-Glemente; Jaume Arroyo; Blandine Laferrère; Dídac Mauricio Aim: To investigate fasting and postprandial adiponectin levels in PWS patients as compared to obese and lean subjects...

... adipocytokines was shown to increase with the accumulation of visceral fat, which may be one of the mechanisms of vascular disease in visceral obesity. We found a unique and novel collagen-like protein, adiponectin, encoded by the most abundantly expressed gene in adipose tissue, termed apM1 (adipose most...