Abstract
We read with interest the letter from Jung et al1 providing data on the potential impact of overweight/obesity and blood pressure on cardiotrophin-1 (CT-1) levels in adolescents. We saw that they found no differences in plasma CT-1 levels between overweight/obese and normal-weight adolescents and neither overweight/obesity indices nor HBA1c and adiponectin correlated with plasma levels of CT-1. In our study, the high plasma CT-1 in morbidly obese patients might possibly be attributable both to the degree of …
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