Šebeková K, Gurecká R, Csongová M, Koborová I, Repiská G, Podracká Ľ. Lean insulin-resistant young adults display increased cardiometabolic risk: A retrospective cross-sectional study.
Diabetes Res Clin Pract 2022;
185:109217. [PMID:
35114297 DOI:
10.1016/j.diabres.2022.109217]
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Abstract
AIM
We investigated whether lean insulin-resistant individuals manifest increased cardiometabolic risk.
METHODS
2,341 (51.8% females) healthy 16-23-year-old subjects were categorized as lean or overweight/obese; and insulin-sensitive or insulin-resistant, and compared.
RESULTS
In both sexes, lean insulin-sensitive and insulin-resistant subjects displayed similar measures of obesity (e.g., males, waist-to-height ratio: lean insulin-sensitive: 0.42 ± 0.03, lean insulin-resistant: 0.43 ± 0.03, overweight/obese insulin-sensitive: 0.49 ± 0.05, overweight/obese insulin-resistant: 0.53 ± 0.06). Lean insulin-sensitive individuals were more insulin-sensitive compared with their overweight/obese peers; insulin-resistant groups presented similar insulin-sensitivity (males, the Quantitative insulin-sensitivity check index (QUICKI): lean insulin-sensitive: 0.354 ± 0.022, lean insulin-resistant: 0.304 ± 0.013, overweight/obese insulin-sensitive: 0.343 ± 0.019, overweight/obese insulin-resistant: 0.299 ± 0.015). The two-factor analysis of variance indicated an independent effect of insulin sensitivity, overweight/obesity, and their interaction on the continuous metabolic syndrome score (p < 0.001, all; males, lean insulin-sensitive: 1.87 ± 0.35, lean insulin-resistant: 2.14 ± 0.42, overweight/obese insulin-sensitive: 2.15 ± 0.40, overweight/obese insulin-resistant: 2.75 ± 0.69). C-reactive protein, leukocyte count, and glomerular filtration rate in both sexes; uric acid, asymmetric dimethyl-arginine, and soluble vascular adhesion protein-1 in males; and soluble receptor for advanced glycation end-products in females were independently associated with insulin resistance. Among phenotypes associated with low QUICKI, the distribution of insulin-resistant individuals was random.
CONCLUSION
Later clinical consequences of insulin resistance in lean subjects remain to be elucidated in longitudinal studies.
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