The influences of gender, puberty, and obesity on resistin levels and the longitudinal relationships between insulin resistance, weight loss, and resistin have not yet been studied in childhood. Age, ...

Individuals who are obese have an increased risk of developing type 2 diabetes, in part because they often become resistant to the effects of the hormone insulin. Resistin is a soluble factor produced ...

Resistin has been linked with obesity and hypothesized as a potential marker of insulin resistance in addition to being linked with acute inflammation. However, these links are still highly ...

Adipose tissue biopsies were obtained by needle liposuction or from subjects undergoing bariatric surgical procedures [5]. Whole adipose tissue samples were taken from six lean subjects (four men and ...

Increased levels of the cytokine resistin were significantly associated with an increased risk for death in adults with pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH), based on data from more than 1000 ...

(Philadelphia, PA) – Chronic inflammation is being implicated in diseases as widespread as cancer, heart disease, Alzheimer's disease, and most recently, diabetes and obesity. The role of the hormone ...

In addition to this, diet-induced obese rats were used to study the relationship between insulin, resistin and insulin resistance. One result reported by the investigators was resistin expression and ...

INTRODUCTION Resistin is an inflammatory mediator and a potential biomarker in cardiovascular diseases. OBJECTIVES We sought to examine its association with peripheral arterial disease (PAD). PATIENTS ...

INTRODUCTION Adipose tissue has been recently recognized as an endocrine organ secreting a number of adipokines contributing to the development of atherosclerosis, hypertension, chronic kidney disease ...

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Obesity is a worldwide health problem directly linked to several diseases such as hypertension and type 2 diabetes. Resistin is a cysteine-rich hormone mainly secreted by adipose tissues and may form ...