Diabetes has become a leading cause of morbidity and mortality and the prevention and management of diabetes is now a major global health concern. While recent studies link obesity with diabetes, ...

Sofia Antipolis, France - Increased levels of adiponectin, a cytokine released from adipose tissue, were associated with greater risk of MI and all-cause and CV mortality in a prospective study of ...

New York, NY - Contrary to what may have been expected, raised blood levels of adiponectin, the major protein secreted by fat cells, appear to indicate a higher risk of coronary heart disease (CHD) in ...

A registry analysis of Chinese adults with type 2 diabetes suggests that a higher concentration of circulating adiponectin, a protein typically associated with reduced cardiovascular risk, is ...

Adiponectin, a hormone secreted by adipose tissue, plays a doubly important role in preserving pancreatic function: in lean people, it protects beta cells, which make insulin, and in obese people, it ...

Adipose tissue acts as an endocrine organ secreting a variety of proteins into the blood known as adipocytokines (Matsuzawa et al, 1999). In contrast to other adipocytokines, serum adiponectin ...

While obesity is a well-known cause of cardiovascular disease, research from Sweden has now revealed that one of the body's obesity-related hormones -- adiponectin -- is also linked to osteoporosis ...

The Human Adiponectin ELISA kit (BioVendor, Brno, Czech Republic) was used to measure serum adiponectin levels in the study patients. a P 0.05 compared with the controls To verify if the reported ...

Researchers investigated the role between adiponectin and leptin in obesity-related carcinogenesis. Their findings suggest that the protein hormone adiponectin has potential for inhibiting the ...

A pregnancy complicated by maternal type 1 diabetes is associated with an increased risk of severe perinatal complications. Poorly controlled blood glucose levels could lead to numerous congenital ...

Adiponectin, a hormone secreted by adipose tissue, plays a doubly important role in preserving pancreatic function: in lean people, it protects beta cells, which make insulin, and in obese people, it ...