Open AccessSerum leptin concentration in a rural African population
Author(s) -
JE Iputo,
Daniel M. Robinson,
M. Mguni
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
east african medical journal
Language(s) - Uncategorized
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.102
H-Index - 40
ISSN - 0012-835X
DOI - 10.4314/eamj.v78i9.8981
Subject(s) - leptin , confidence interval , medicine , anthropometry , obesity , population , body mass index , endocrinology , cohort , trunk , biology , environmental health , ecology
To determine the serum leptin concentration in a cohort of healthy rural Africans, it's relation to the commonly used anthropometric measures of obesity and its relation to the patterns of distribution of fat in the body.