| http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#value | - First, women have higher levels of the obesity-association protein, leptin,56, 57 and increasing BMI is correlated with increased leptin levels in females, but not males.58 It has been shown that leptin is a growth factor for colonic epithelial cells59 and promotes invasiveness of colonic epithelial cells.60 Second, some studies have demonstrated that the propensity for insulin resistance and adul
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