Adiponectin is a metabolic link between obesity and bone mineral density

Wednesday, November 26, 2008 - 03:21 in Health & Medicine

Researchers at the University of Toronto, Faculty of Medicine, Toronto, Canada, have discovered that adiponectin, a protein secreted from adipocytes, is a metabolic link that can explain, in part, the known positive relationship between obesity and both bone mineral density and reduced susceptibility to fractures...

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