Metabolic Profiles in Obese Children and Adolescents with Insulin Resistance

Authors

  • Marko Kostovski Faculty of Medicine, Ss Cyril and Methodius University of Skopje, Skopje, Republic of Macedonia http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0590-9734
  • Viktor Simeonovski Faculty of Medicine, Ss Cyril and Methodius University of Skopje, Skopje, Republic of Macedonia
  • Kristina Mironska Faculty of Medicine, Ss Cyril and Methodius University of Skopje, Skopje, Republic of Macedonia
  • Velibor Tasic Faculty of Medicine, Ss Cyril and Methodius University of Skopje, Skopje, Republic of Macedonia http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3377-1245
  • Zoran Gucev Faculty of Medicine, Ss Cyril and Methodius University of Skopje, Skopje, Republic of Macedonia http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6491-9647

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3889/oamjms.2018.097

Keywords:

Childhood obesity, Obesity in adolescents, Insulin resistance, Homeostatic model assessment of insulin resistance, Metabolic parameters

Abstract

BACKGROUND: In the past several decades, the increasing frequency of overweight and obese children and adolescents in the world has become a public health problem. It has contributed significantly to the already high tide of diabetes, cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases.

AIM: To investigate the frequency of insulin resistance and to evaluate the metabolic profile of insulin resistant and non-insulin resistant obese children and adolescents.

SUBJECTS AND METHODS: The study included 96 (45 boys, 51 girls) obese children and adolescents aged     4-17 years old (10.50 ± 2.87 years). Only participants with Body Mass Index ≥ 95 percentile were included.  We analysed sera for fasting insulin levels (FI), fasting serum triglycerides (TG), total serum cholesterol (TC), fasting plasma glucose (FPG) and plasma glucose 2 hours after the performance of the oral glucose tolerance test        (2-h G). Homeostatic model assessment for insulin resistance (HOMA-IR) index was calculated as fasting insulin concentration (microunits per millilitre) x fasting glucose concentration (millimolar)/22.5. The value of HOMA-IR above 3.16 was used as a cut-off value for both genders.

RESULTS: Insulin resistance was determined in 58.33% of study participants. Insulin resistant participants had significantly higher level of 2-h G (p = 0.02), FI level (p = 0.000) as well as TG levels (p = 0.01), compared to non-insulin resistant group. Strikingly, 70.73% of the pubertal adolescents were insulin resistant in comparison to 49.09% of the preadolescents (p = 0.03). Significantly higher percentage of insulin-resistant participants were girls (p = 0.009). Moreover, a higher percentage of the girls (70.59%) than boys (44.44%) had HOMA-IR above 3.16 and had elevated FI levels (70.59% vs 48.89%). The difference in the frequency of insulin resistance among obese versus severely obese children and adolescents was not significant (p = 0.73, p > 0.05). Our study results also showed positive, but weak, correlation of HOMA-IR with age, FPG, TG and BMI of the participants (p < 0.05).

CONCLUSION: Higher percentage of insulin-resistant participants was of female gender and was adolescents. In general, insulin resistant obese children and adolescents tend to have a worse metabolic profile in comparison to individuals without insulin resistance. It is of note that the highest insulin resistance was also linked with the highest concentrations of triglycerides.

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Kostovski M, Simeonovski V, Mironska K, Tasic V, Gucev Z. Metabolic Profiles in Obese Children and Adolescents with Insulin Resistance. Open Access Maced J Med Sci [Internet]. 2018 Mar. 14 [cited 2024 Mar. 29];6(3):511-8. Available from: https://oamjms.eu/index.php/mjms/article/view/oamjms.2018.097

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