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Serum Concentrations of Adiponectin and Risk of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus and Coronary Heart Disease in Apparently Healthy Middle-Aged Men

Results From the 18-Year Follow-Up of a Large Cohort From Southern Germany

Wolfgang Koenig, MD, FACC^_*,_*, Natalie Khuseyinova, MD^_*, Jens Baumert, PhD, Christa Meisinger, MD, MPH^, and Hannelore Löwel, MD

^_* Department of Internal Medicine II—Cardiology, University of Ulm Medical Center, Ulm, Germany
GSF - National Research Center for Environment and Health, Institute of Epidemiology, Neuherberg, Germany
MONICA/KORA Myocardial Infarction Registry, Augsburg Central Hospital, Augsburg, Germany

View larger version (17K): [in a new window]   Figure 1 Hazard ratio (95% confidence interval [CI]) for incident type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) and incident coronary heart disease (CHD) in men by subgroups of adiponectin and high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C) tertile combinations. Ref = referent.