Endocrine Abstracts

Adiponectin is a major insulin sensitizing hormone, which activates AMP kinase and PPARα pathways to facilitate glucose and lipid metabolism to increase insulin sensitivity. Decreased plasma adiponectin linked to obesity is causally involved in insulin resistance and metabolic syndrome in obesity. Moreover, decreased plasma adiponectin is causally involved in atherosclerosis. In fact, decreased plasma adiponectin levels have been shown to be associated with future develop...

Background: Adequate sleep is important for good health, but it is not always easy to achieve because of social factors. Daytime napping is widely prevalent around the world. We recently published a meta-analysis, in which a J-shaped relationship was identified between naptime and cardiovascular diseases.Objective: In this research, we also performed a meta-analysis to investigate the association between daytime sleepiness or napping and the risk of meta...