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SUBMITTER: Tahapary DL
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5678209 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Tahapary D L DL de Ruiter K K Martin I I Brienen E A T EAT van Lieshout L L Djuardi Y Y Djimandjaja C C CC Houwing-Duistermaat J J JJ Soewondo P P Sartono E E Supali T T Smit J W A JWA Yazdanbakhsh M M
Nutrition & diabetes 20171016 10
Emerging evidence suggests that helminths might confer protection against the development of type 2 diabetes. We aimed to assess the role of adipokines in mediating the effect of helminths on insulin resistance. Serum samples were obtained from a randomized-controlled trial of anthelmintic treatment in an area endemic for soil-transmitted helminths (STH), Flores Island, Indonesia. In STH-infected subjects, anthelmintic treatment significantly increased the ratio of leptin to adiponectin (treatme ...[more]