Low Plasma Adiponectin Levels Are Associated With Increased Hepatic Lipase Activity In Vivo
Response to Schneider et al.
- Junji Kobayashi, MD, PHD,
- Yuko Murase, MD, PHD,
- Masa-aki Kawashiri, MD, PHD,
- Atsushi Nohara, MD, PHD,
- Akihiro Inazu, MD, PHD and
- Hiroshi Mabuchi, MD, PHD
- Department of Lipidology, Kanazawa University Graduate School of Medical Science, Kanazawa City, Japan
- Address correspondence to Dr. Junji Kobayaski, Department of Lipidology, Kanazawa University Graduate School of Medical Science, Takara-machi 13-1, Kanazawa 920-8640, Japan. E-mail: junji{at}med.kanazawa-u.ac.jp
Recently, close attention has been given to the relationships between plasma adiponectin levels and lipolytic enzymes such as hepatic lipase and lipoprotein lipase activities in an effort to understand the possible mechanism of hyperlipidemia in low adiponectin. The cross-sectional study by Schneider et al. (1) has concluded that postheparin plasma hepatic lipase activity is inversely associated with plasma …
