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Each grade has 10 step rates (steps 1-10) that are each worth approximately 3 percent of the employee's salary. Within-grade step increases are based on an acceptable level of performance and longevity (waiting periods of 1 year at steps 1-3, 2 years at steps 4-6, and 3 years at steps 7-9). It normally takes 18 years to advance from step 1 to step 10 within a single GS grade if an employee remains in that single grade.
These results also raise the possibility that the metabolic effects of leptin are at least in part directly induced by leptin and not a secondary result of the decrease in VAT. However, we did not measure adiponectin, an adipocytokine that is inversely associated with VAT and positively with insulin sensitivity (47).