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Frontiers Media, Frontiers in Public Health, (2), 2014

DOI: 10.3389/fpubh.2014.00193

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Association between Vitamin D and Adiponectin and Its Relationship with Body Mass Index: The META-Health Study

Journal article published in 2014 by Aurelian Bidulescu ORCID, Alanna A. Morris, Neli Stoyanova, Yuan-Xiang Meng, Viola Vaccarino, Arshed A. Quyyumi, Gary H. Gibbons
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Abstract

Background: Low vitamin D and adiponectin levels are both associated with obesity and cardiovascular disease. Previous studies have indicated that vitamin D levels are directly associated with adiponectin, and that this association varies across body mass index (BMI) categories; stronger with increasing BMI. Few studies examined this association in African-Americans (AA), known to have lower levels of vitamin D and adiponectin, and in whites.