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. 2018 Sep 19;9:1238. doi: 10.3389/fphys.2018.01238

Table 1.

Characteristics of enrolled studies for accuracy of circulating adiponectin level on metabolic syndrome diagnosis.

Population Adiponectin MetS Accuracy
Data source (Author, year, country) Study design Charac-teristics Age Gender (F/M) Sample Assay Diagnosis Prevalence (N, %) Sensitivity Speciality Cut-off (ug/ml) AUROC
Ogawa et al., 2005, Japan Cross-sectional 1. Obese adolescents,
2. Without DM, renal and here-ditary disease,
3. Without smoking and regular medication
11.0 ± 1.3 0/100 Serum RIA Japanese Criteria 39(39.0) 0.64 0.67 6.65 0.67 ± 0.06
Gilardini et al., 2006, Italy Cross-sectional 1.Obese adolescents 14(9–18) 96/66 Serum ELISA WHO definition M:20(30.3) 0.82(0.48–0.98) 0.57(0.39–0.74) 8.1 0.70 ± 0.05
F:20(20.8) 0.77(0.46–0.95) 0.79(0.67–0.88) 8.3 0.87 ± 0.05
Mojiminiyi et al., Kuwait 2007 Cross-sectional T2DM patients MetS-M: 60(50–66)
F:62(56–66)
Non-MetS-
M:65(59–70)
F: 59 (54–65)
78/57 Plasma ELISA AHA/NHLBI criteria M:36(63.2) 0.83 0.65 18 0.74 (0.64–0.84)
F:46(59.0) 0.92 0.41
Lee et al., USA, 2008 Cross-sectional 1. obese adolescents without medication affecting lipid and BP;
2. with less (< 10%) PCOS and DM cases
AA:12.7 ± 0.2 AA: 74/48 Serum RIA Modified NCEP-ATP-III criteria for children AA:23(18.9) 0.83 0.82 AA: 10.8 0.89
CA: 13.1 ± 0.2 CA: 71/58 CA: 24(18.6) 0.79 0.79 CA: 11.0 0.86
Boyraz et al., Turkey, 2013 Cross-sectional 1. Obese pubertal children,
2. without medication for DM or dyslipide-mia
M:12.5 ± 1.9
F:12.2 ± 2.3
85/63 Serum ELISA Modified WHO criteria for children 35(23.6) 0.74 0.81 2.85 0.82(0.74–0.90)
Hata et al., Japan, 2015 Pros-pective study 1. General population,
2. without MetS at baseline
40.4 ± 0.5 0/365 Serum RIA Interim criteria 45(12.3) 0.73 0.62 6.2 NA
Patel et al., India, 2015 Cross-sectional 1. General population,
2. Without ischemic, renal, liver diseases and cancer,
3. Without taking alcohol, tobacco and medication for chronic disease.
MetS: 50.7
Non-MetS: 49.3
41/46 Serum ELISA Interim criteria 44(50.6) 0.73 0.56 17.7 0.68(0.58–0.76)

AA, African American; AUCROC, area under the receiver operating characteristic; CA, Caucasian; ELISA, enzyme-linked immunoabsorbent assay; F, female; M, male; MetS, metabolic syndrome; RIA, radioimmuno assay; T2DM, type 2 diabetes mellitus.