Population
150 African-American and Caucasian youth (children and adolescents)
Design
Cohort
Follow-up
2 years
Authors
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Racial adiponectin differences in children may reflect fat distribution; hypothesis-generating for ethnic disparities in insulin sensitivity.
In youth, adiponectin is positively correlated with insulin sensitivity and inversely related to central fat, with lower levels in African-American children explained by a higher acute insulin response to glucose.
Bush et al. (2005) studied this question.
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