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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Ding, Zong-yi
• Xu, Wan-ning
• Du, Li-rong

Titel

Blood leptin level of 154 Chinese children 0 - 14 years of age

Ist Teil von

• Zhonghua er ke za zhi, 2003-07, Vol.41 (7), p.486

Ort / Verlag

China

Erscheinungsjahr

2003

Quelle

MEDLINE

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• To study blood Leptin level of 154 (78 male, 76 female) Chinese obese/non-obese children aged 0 - 14 years during 1999 - 2001. The gender- and age-specific distribution pattern of Leptin and its relationship with anthropometric parameters (waist circumference, waist/hip ratio, lean body mass, fat mass, body fat percentage, BMI/Kaup index etc.) and blood insulin level were recorded. (1) The blood Leptin level in healthy non-obese kids ranged from 1.01 - 29.92 (ng/ml), the mean values and SD were 2.99 +/- 2.13 (ng/ml) [90% confidence interval was 1.36 - 14.21 (ng/ml) in boys and 1.74 - 21.17 (ng/ml) in girls]. There was no significant difference in the blood Leptin level between serum and plasma. (2) The blood Leptin level was higher in overweight/obese kids than that in non-obese kids (P < 0.001). (3) There was significant difference in the blood Leptin levels between boys and girls groups (P = 0.023), especially in non-obese group (P = 0.004). The multiple regression analysis showed that there was no correlat