International Journal of Obesity

Table 2 Correlations (Spearman coefficients) between serum adipocytokine levels and body mass index at cohort entry by ethnicity

From: Ethnic differences in serum adipokine and C-reactive protein levels: the multiethnic cohort

	Men ^a						Women
	All	White	Japanese American	Latino	African American	Native Hawaiian	All	White	Japanese American	Latino	African American	Native Hawaiian
N	321	100	82	60	60	19	930	207	309	194	140	80
Leptin	0.63^b	0.57^b	0.71^b	0.52^b	0.64^b	0.59^b	0.67^b	0.69^b	0.62^b	0.57^b	0.58^b	0.50^b
Adiponectin	−0.10	−0.16	−0.19	−0.12	−0.01	−0.11	−0.32^b	−0.41^b	−0.38^b	−0.40^b	−0.28^b	−0.09
Leptin:adiponectin ratio	0.51^b	0.50^b	0.62^b	0.40^b	0.38^b	0.33	0.61^b	0.64^b	0.57^b	0.61^b	0.53^b	0.36^b
C-reactive protein	0.24^b	0.22^b	0.29^b	−0.03	0.17	0.11	0.39^b	0.30^b	0.21^b	0.32^b	0.40^b	0.32^b
Interleukin-6	0.04	0.15	0.02	−0.15	−0.18	0.34	0.12^b	0.04	0.11	0.07	0.14	−0.05
Tumor necrosis factor-α	−0.15^b	−0.05	−0.23^b	−0.28^b	−0.11	0.05	−0.01	−0.16^b	0.02	0.01	−0.02	−0.10

^aData were missing for leptin (N=1), leptin:adiponectin ratio (N=1) and C-reactive protein (N=2) for men.
^bP-value<0.05

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