Contribution of Glucose Tolerance and Gender to Cardiac Adiposity

Patricia Iozzo*, Riikka Lautamaki, Ronald Borra, Hanna-Riikka Lehto, Marco Bucci, Antti Viljanen, Jussi Parkka, Virva Lepomaki, Romina Maggio, Riitta Parkkola, Juhani Knuuti, Pirjo Nuutila

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    Context and Objective: To examine whether pericardial and myocardial fat depots may contribute to the association between diabetes and cardiovascular risk, including sex-related differences, and the role of adiponectin, we evaluated data in patients with obesity and without diabetes [nondiabetic (ND)] or with impaired glucose tolerance or type 2 diabetes and in lean ND controls.

    Methods: Magnetic resonance imaging and spectroscopy were used to measure left ventricular (LV) function and abdominal sc and visceral fat areas to estimate respective masses, pericardial fat depots, and myocardial triglyceride content in 53 subjects (10 lean ND, 25 obese ND, six impaired-glucose-tolerance, and 12 type 2 diabetic patients with macrovascular disease); gender effects and adiponectin levels were evaluated in the available subset of subjects.

    Results: Myocardial and pericardial fat increased progressively across study groups. They were lower in obese women than men(P = 0.002), but cardiac steatosis caught up in hyperglycemic women(+81% vs. ND, P = 0.01). Adiponectin was inversely related with both fat depots (P <0.01) and LV mass (P = 0.003) and positively with LV function (P = 0.03). In multiple regression analysis, myocardial and pericardial fat were independently related with plasma glucose levels, only pericardial fat mass was associated with visceral adiposity and myocardial fat with cardiac output and work.

    Conclusions: We conclude that glycemia, gender, adiponectin, and cardiac workload are associated with, and hyperglycemia and male gender are independent positive predictors of, heart adiposity. Once glucose tolerance becomes impaired, the evolution of cardiac steatosis is more pronounced in women. (J Clin Endocrinol Metab 94: 4472-4482, 2009)

    Originele taal-2English
    Pagina's (van-tot)4472-4482
    Aantal pagina's11
    TijdschriftJournal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism
    Volume94
    Nummer van het tijdschrift11
    DOI's
    StatusPublished - nov.-2009

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