Metabolic inflexibility in youth with obesity: Is it a feature of obesity or distinctive of youth who are metabolically unhealthy?

Autor: SoJung Lee, Silva A. Arslanian, Nour Gebara, Joon Young Kim, Fida Bacha
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: Clin Obes
ISSN: 1758-8111
1758-8103
DOI: 10.1111/cob.12501
Popis: BACKGROUND: Individuals with obesity have metabolic inflexibility with diminished fasting fat oxidation and blunted increase in respiratory quotient (RQ) in insulin-stimulated states. However, it is unclear if metabolic inflexibility is a characteristic of obesity per se or is unique to youth who have metabolically unhealthy obesity (MUO) compared with metabolically healthy obesity (MHO). OBJECTIVE: We investigated metabolic flexibility in youth with MUO, MHO and normal weight (NW) and compared their metabolic characteristics. PATIENTS/DESIGN: Youth (n=188) were divided, based on cut-off points for in vivo insulin sensitivity (IS) of adolescents with NW, into 137 with MUO and 51 with MHO. Fasting hepatic IS (HIS) from hepatic glucose production by [6,6-(2)H(2)]glucose, adipose tissue IS (ATIS) from whole-body lipolysis by [(2)H(5)]glycerol, RQ (indirect calorimetry) during fasting and a hyperinsulinemic (80mu/m(2)/min)-euglycemic clamp were measured. RESULTS: Youth with MUO vs. MHO had blunted ΔRQ (p=0.035) and lower HIS and ATIS (both p
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