Associations of Adiponectin and Leptin with Incident Coronary Heart Disease and Ischemic Stroke in African Americans: The Jackson Heart Study

Background: Because the predictive significance of previously reported racial differences in leptin and adiponectin levels remains unclear, we assessed the prospective association of these adipokines with the risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD) events in African Americans, a population with a high...

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Main Authors: Bidulescu, Aurelian, Liu, Jiankang, Chen, Zhimin, Hickson, DeMarc A., Musani, Solomon K., Samdarshi, Tandaw E., Fox, Ervin R., Taylor, Herman A., Gibbons, Gary H.
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2013
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Public Health
Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3854845/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24350185
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2013.00016
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