Association of Cord Plasma Leptin With Birth Size in Term Newborns

• Main Authors: Wing-Kuen Tung (Author), Shio-Jean Lin (Author), Yea-Shwu Hwang (Author), Ching-Ming Wu (Author), Yun-Han Wang (Author), Wen-Hui Tsai (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Elsevier, 2009-12-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Leptin is secreted from adipose tissue and plays an important role in obesity. Recent studies have shown that the relationship between leptin and body fat mass may have ethnic differences. The purpose of our study was to investigate the relationship between venous umbilical cord plasma leptin and an...