Leptin levels in obese women with and without type 2 diabetes mellitus

Mehmet Akif Buyukbese; Ali Cetinkaya; Ramazan Kocabas; Aytekin Guven; Mehmet Tarakcioglu

doi:10.1080/09629350400008828

Mediators of Inflammation (Jan 2004)

Leptin levels in obese women with and without type 2 diabetes mellitus

Mehmet Akif Buyukbese,
Ali Cetinkaya,
Ramazan Kocabas,
Aytekin Guven,
Mehmet Tarakcioglu

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Mehmet Akif Buyukbese: Department of Internal Medicine, Kahramanmaras Sutcu Imam University, Faculty of Medicine, Kahramanmaras 46050, Turkey
Ali Cetinkaya: Department of Internal Medicine, Kahramanmaras Sutcu Imam University, Faculty of Medicine, Kahramanmaras 46050, Turkey
Ramazan Kocabas: Department of Biochemistry and Clinical Biochemistry, Gaziantep University, Faculty of Medicine, Gaziantep, Turkey
Aytekin Guven: Department of Cardiology, Kahramanmaras Sutcu Imam University, Faculty of Medicine, Kahramanmaras 46050, Turkey
Mehmet Tarakcioglu: Department of Biochemistry and Clinical Biochemistry, Gaziantep University, Faculty of Medicine, Gaziantep, Turkey

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/09629350400008828
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 13, no. 5-6
pp. 321 – 325

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INTRODUCTION: The role of leptin has been more clear in the endocrinology area after the discovery of its secretion from the adipose tissue. The aim of the study is to investigate the leptin levels in obese women in whom type 2 diabetes mellitus were present or absent.

Published in Mediators of Inflammation

ISSN: 0962-9351 (Print); 1466-1861 (Online)
Publisher: Wiley
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Medicine: Pathology
Website: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/4792

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