Population
86 healthy subjects aged 12 to 21 years, including 46 African Americans and 40 whites
Design
Cross-sectional
Authors
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May signal higher cardiometabolic risk in African-American boys; hypothesis-generating and requires prospective validation before any clinical application.
African-American boys have significantly lower serum adiponectin levels compared to white boys, which may predispose them to a greater risk of diabetes and cardiovascular disease.
Degawa‐Yamauchi et al. (2003) studied this question.
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