Adipokines demonstrate the interacting influence of central obesity with other cardiometabolic risk factors of metabolic syndrome in Hong Kong Chinese adults

• Rashmi Supriya ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Rashmi Supriya, Bjorn T. Tam

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Health Technology and Informatics, Faculty of Health and Social Sciences, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong

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• Bjorn T. Tam ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Rashmi Supriya, Bjorn T. Tam

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Health Technology and Informatics, Faculty of Health and Social Sciences, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong

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• Angus P. Yu,

  Roles Data curation

  Affiliation School of Public Health, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong

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• Paul H. Lee,

  Roles Formal analysis

  Affiliation School of Nursing, Faculty of Health and Social Sciences, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong

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• Christopher W. Lai,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis

  Affiliation Department of Health Technology and Informatics, Faculty of Health and Social Sciences, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong

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• Kenneth K. Cheng,

  Roles Formal analysis

  Affiliation Department of Health Technology and Informatics, Faculty of Health and Social Sciences, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong

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• Sonata Y. Yau,

  Roles Formal analysis

  Affiliation Department of Rehabilitation Sciences, Faculty of Health and Social Sciences, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong

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• Lawrence W. Chan,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis

  Affiliation Department of Health Technology and Informatics, Faculty of Health and Social Sciences, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong

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• Benjamin Y. Yung,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis

  Affiliation Department of Health Technology and Informatics, Faculty of Health and Social Sciences, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong

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• Sinead Sheridan,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Public Health, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong

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• Parco M. Siu

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Supervision, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: pmsiu@hku.hk

  Affiliation School of Public Health, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3548-5058

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