Table 1.

Ethnic differences in adipose tissue lipolysis.

Participants	System	Ethnic differences in lipolysis	References
Nondiabetic, premenopausal, obese black and white US women	In vivo	Black < white for basal and insulin-suppressed systemic glycerol turnover, but not FFA turnover	Albu et al. [43]
Premenopausal, centrally obese black and white US women	In vivo	Black < white for basal and epinephrine-stimulated lipolysis	Racette et al. [44]
Morbidly obese black and white US women	In vitro	Black < white for basal lipolysis in VAT and SAT; black = white for isoproterenol-stimulated lipolysis, with and without insulin, in VAT and SAT	Barakat et al. [45]
Postmenopausal, overweight black and white US women	In vitro	Black > white for basal and insulin-inhibited lipolysis of abdominal SAT	Fried et al. [46]
Premenopausal, obese black and white South African (SA) women	In vivo	Black > white for basal and insulin-inhibited lipolysis of abdominal SAT	Van Der Merwe et al. [6]
Premenopausal, obese black and white SA women	In vitro	Black > white for insulin-inhibited lipolysis of abdominal SAT	Buthelezi et al. [47]
Premenopausal, normal-weight and obese black and white SA women	In vivo	Black = white for basal and insulin-suppressed lipolysis	Goedecke et al. [48]