Example sentences for: ghrelin

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  • When diabetics (diagnosed) and participants with high glucose (glucose >300 mg/dl) were removed from this analysis, all relationships remained significant except for the correlation between ghrelin and adiponectin, and ghrelin and insulin.

  • Identified relationships included: ghrelin with high-density lipoprotein (HDL), alcohol intake, and creatinine; leptin with diastolic blood pressure, smoking, and blood urea nitrogen (BUN); adiponectin with HDL, triglycerides, uric acid, and BUN; insulin with HDL, triglycerides, uric acid, and smoking; glucose with HDL, triglycerides, uric acid, alcohol intake, BUN, and creatinine; QUICKI with HDL, triglycerides, uric acid, smoking, and BUN.

  • Only total ghrelin was measured, since active octanoylated ghrelin is unstable.

  • The mechanism linking short sleep with weight gain is unknown, but Mignot and colleagues' study in this month's PLoS Medicine [3] adds to the growing evidence implicating leptin and ghrelin, the two key opposing hormones involved in appetite regulation.

  • Figure 3B shows the mean ghrelin levels for half-hour increments of total sleep time after adjustment for age, sex, BMI, and time of storage (see Table 2).


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