Leptin Levels and Nutritional Status of Indigenous Tepehuán and Mestizo Subjects in Durango, Mexico

Figure 1

Comparison of circulating leptin levels in Tepehuán and Mestizo subjects according to their nutritional status. Distribution of the data is significantly different among the four subgroups according to ANOVA test (𝑃<0.0001). Moreover, analysis of the data by the Tukey-Kramer multiple comparisons test evidenced significant differences between NW Tepehuán and NW Mestizo, OW/O Tepehuán and OW/O Mestizo, and NW Mestizo and OW/O Mestizo subjects. *𝑃<0.05; **𝑃<0.01; ***𝑃<0.001. NW: normal weight; OW/O: overweight/obese.