Serum Concentrations of Adipocyte Fatty Acid Binding Protein in Patients with Anorexia Nervosa

Abstract

Serum adipocyte fatty acid-binding protein (FABP) concentrations are linked to human obesity and other features of metabolic syndrome. Whether FABP associates with metabolic alterations in chronic malnutrition is unknown.

In the present study, we measured fasting serum levels of FABP, leptin, soluble leptin receptor, adiponectin, resistin, C-reactive protein (CRP), insulin, glucose, cholesterol and triglycerides in 19 patients with a restrictive type of anorexia nervosa (AN) and in 16 healthy age-matched control women (C).

Keywords

• Adipocyte fatty acid binding protein
• Anorexia nervosa
• Malnutrition
• Adipokines
• Biochemical parameters
• metabolic syndrome
• multigene family
• obesity
• atherosclerosis
• lipolysis
• tissue
• mice
• ap2