Giuseppina R Umano1,2, Veronika Shabanova3, Bridget Pierpont1, Mariana Mata1, Jessica Nouws1, Domenico Tricò4,5, Alfonso Galderisi1,6, Nicola Santoro1, Sonia Caprio7. 1. Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Endocrinology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, 06520, USA. 2. Department of the Woman, the Child, of General and Specialized Surgery, University of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli, Naples, Italy. 3. Department of Pediatrics, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, 06520, USA. 4. Department of Internal Medicine, Section of Endocrinology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, 06520, USA. 5. Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy. 6. Department of Women's and Children's Health, University of Padova, Padova, Italy. 7. Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Endocrinology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, 06520, USA. sonia.caprio@yale.edu.
Abstract
BACKGROUND: The relative proportion of visceral fat (VAT) to subcutaneous fat (SAT) has been described as a major determinant of insulin resistance (IR). Our study sought to evaluate the effect of body fat distribution on glucose metabolism and intrahepatic fat content over time in a multiethnic cohort of obese adolescents. SUBJECTS/ METHODS: We examined markers of glucose metabolism by oral glucose tolerance test, and body fat distribution by abdominal MRI at baseline and after 19.2 ± 11.4 months in a cohort of 151 obese adolescents (88 girls, 63 boys; mean age 13.3 ± 3.4 years; mean BMI z-score 2.15 ± 0.70). Hepatic fat content was assessed by fast-gradient MRI in a subset of 93 subjects. We used the median value of VAT/(VAT + SAT) ratio within each gender at baseline to stratify our sample into high and low ratio groups (median value 0.0972 in girls and 0.118 in boys). RESULTS: Female subjects tended to remain in their VAT/(VAT + SAT) category over time (change over follow-up P = 0.14 among girls, and P = 0.04 among boys). Baseline VAT/(VAT + SAT) strongly predicted the hepatic fat content, fasting insulin, 2-h glucose, and whole-body insulin sensitivity index at follow-up among girls, but not in boys. CONCLUSIONS: The VAT/(VAT + SAT) ratio is a major determinant of impaired glucose metabolism and hepatic fat accumulation over time, and its effects are more pronounced in girls than in boys.
BACKGROUND: The relative proportion of visceral fat (VAT) to subcutaneous fat (SAT) has been described as a major determinant of insulin resistance (IR). Our study sought to evaluate the effect of body fat distribution on glucose metabolism and intrahepatic fat content over time in a multiethnic cohort of obese adolescents. SUBJECTS/ METHODS: We examined markers of glucose metabolism by oral glucose tolerance test, and body fat distribution by abdominal MRI at baseline and after 19.2 ± 11.4 months in a cohort of 151 obese adolescents (88 girls, 63 boys; mean age 13.3 ± 3.4 years; mean BMI z-score 2.15 ± 0.70). Hepatic fat content was assessed by fast-gradient MRI in a subset of 93 subjects. We used the median value of VAT/(VAT + SAT) ratio within each gender at baseline to stratify our sample into high and low ratio groups (median value 0.0972 in girls and 0.118 in boys). RESULTS: Female subjects tended to remain in their VAT/(VAT + SAT) category over time (change over follow-up P = 0.14 among girls, and P = 0.04 among boys). Baseline VAT/(VAT + SAT) strongly predicted the hepatic fat content, fasting insulin, 2-h glucose, and whole-body insulin sensitivity index at follow-up among girls, but not in boys. CONCLUSIONS: The VAT/(VAT + SAT) ratio is a major determinant of impaired glucose metabolism and hepatic fat accumulation over time, and its effects are more pronounced in girls than in boys.
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