title: [Relationships between serum ghrelin and lipid profile and serum leptin, adiponectin, and insulin among children in Beijing, China].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To study the relationship between serum ghrelin and lipid profile and serum leptin, adiponectin, and insulin among children in Beijing.
  
  
  METHODS
  A total of 879 pupils aged 8 - 10 years were randomly selected. Height, body weight, waist circumference, body mass index (BMI), body fat percentage (%BF), blood lipid, serum leptin, insulin, adiponectin and ghrelin were measured in all samples.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Ghrelin associated negatively with body weight, waist circumference, BMI, %BF, serum leptin level and positively with HDL-C. Factor analysis has shown five factors which were sufficient to explain correlations between variables-body composition and leptin, dyslipidemia, glucose metabolism and adiponectin.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Serum ghrelin level correlated strongly with body weight, waist circumference, BMI, %BF and leptin, Our finding suggested significantly increased leptin levels following decreased ghrelin levels could mostly disordered adipose metabolism at early obesity in children.
authors: Institute of Nutrition and Food Safety, Chinese Center for Diseases Control and Prevention, Beijing 100050, China. dusm9709@126.com
authors: Songming
authors: S
authors: Du
authors: Xiaoqi
authors: X
authors: Hu
authors: Ailing
authors: A
authors: Liu
authors: Qian
authors: Q
authors: Zhang
authors: Hui
authors: H
authors: Pan
authors: Guansheng
authors: G
authors: Ma
mesh_terms: D052242:Adiponectin / Q000097:blood*; D015992:Body Mass Index; D001835:Body Weight; D002648:Child; D002681:China; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D005260:Female; D054439:Ghrelin / Q000097:blood*; D006801:Humans; D007328:Insulin / Q000097:blood*; D020738:Leptin / Q000097:blood*; D008055:Lipids / Q000097:blood* / Q000145:classification; D008297:Male; D012494:Sampling Studies
chemical_list: D052242:Adiponectin; D054439:Ghrelin; D007328:Insulin; D020738:Leptin; D008055:Lipids