Correlation of circulating full‐length visfatin (PBEF/NAMPT) with metabolic parameters in subjects with and without diabetes: a cross‐sectional study

Ravi Retnakaran, Byung‐Soo Youn, Ying Liu, Anthony J. Hanley, Nam Seok Lee, Ji Woo Park, Eun Sun Song, Vivian Vu, W. Kim, Rungsunn Tungtrongchitr,

Clinical Endocrinology · 2008 · 79 citations · 43 references

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Abstract

Circulating visfatin is independently associated with diabetes and resistin concentration, but is not related to adiponectin multimers or other metabolic covariates. These data are suggestive of a potential role of visfatin in subclinical inflammatory states.

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