Highlights
- •The metabolic response to a glucose load was analyzed before and after weight loss and after weight maintenance.
- •Changes in metabolite patterns occurred differentially during weight loss and weight maintenance.
- •Hepatic insulin sensitivity and suppression of aromatic amino acids improved with weight loss.
- •Enhanced suppression of aromatic amino acids was associated with decreased insulinogenic index.
- •Glucose tolerance and the majority of metabolite responses improved during weight maintenance.
Abstract
Aims
Weight loss improves insulin sensitivity and glucose tolerance in obese subjects with
impaired glucose tolerance (IGT), but the long term dynamic effects on blood metabolites
other than glucose during an oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT), are largely unknown.
Here, we studied changes in OGTT-elicited metabolite patterns in obese subjects during
a diet-induced weight loss study.
Methods
Blood samples from 14 obese individuals with IGT were collected at 0, 30 and 120 min during a standard 75 g OGTT at baseline (BMI 44 ± 2 kg/m2), after weight loss (BMI 36 ± 2 kg/m2) and after weight maintenance (BMI 35 ± 2 kg/m2). Serum metabolite levels were analyzed by gas chromatography/mass spectrometry and
compared to a lean glucose tolerant group.
Results
Changes in the OGTT-elicited metabolite patterns occurred differentially during weight
loss and weight maintenance. Enhanced suppression of aromatic amino acids were associated
with decreased insulinogenic index observed after weight loss (tyrosine: r = 0.72, p = 0.013; phenylalanine: r = 0.63, p = 0.039). The OGTT-elicited suppression and/or lack of increase in levels of glutamate,
glutamine, isoleucine, leucine, and the fatty acids laurate, oleate and palmitate,
improved towards the lean profile after weight maintenance, paralleling an improvement
in glucose tolerance. The greater heterogeneity in the response before and after weight
loss in the obese, compared to lean subjects, was markedly reduced after weight maintenance.
Conclusions
Diet-induced weight loss followed by weight maintenance results in changes in metabolite
profiles associated with either hepatic insulin sensitivity or peripheral glucose
tolerance. Our results highlight the importance of evaluating the effects of weight
loss and weight maintenance separately.
Keywords
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Article info
Publication history
Published online: January 14, 2016
Accepted:
December 24,
2015
Received in revised form:
November 18,
2015
Received:
October 14,
2015
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