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Serum Levels of Resistin and Adiponectin in Women with Periodontitis: the Hisayama Study
T. Saito1,*,
N. Yamaguchi2,
Y. Shimazaki3,
H. Hayashida1,
K. Yonemoto4,
Y. Doi5,
Y. Kiyohara4,
M. Iida5 and
Y. Yamashita3
1 Department of Oral Health, Unit of Social Medicine, Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Nagasaki University, Sakamoto 1-7-1, Nagasaki, 852-8588, Japan;
2 Department of Pediatric Dentistry and
3 Department of Preventive Dentistry, Kyushu University Faculty of Dental Science, Japan; and
4 Department of Environmental Medicine and
5 Department of Medicine and Clinical Science, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University, Japan

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Figure. Percentage distribution of serum levels of adipokines in women with and without periodontitis. N = 42 for healthy gingiva and N = 34 for periodontitis. Distributions of resistin and of adiponectin between groups were not significantly different by chi-square test. Mean and standard deviation of each group are represented in Table 1 .
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Journal of Dental Research, Vol. 87, No. 4,
319-322 (2008)
DOI: 10.1177/154405910808700416

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