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- Title
Fasting Plasma Ghrelin Levels Are Negatively Correlated With Insulin Resistance and PAI-1, but Not With Leptin, in Obese Children and Adolescents.
- Authors
Ikezaki, Ayako; Hosoda, Hiroshi; Ito, Keiko; Iwama, Saika; Miura, Naoko; Matsuoka, Hisafumi; Kondo, Chisato; Kojima, Masayasu; Kangawa, Kenji; Sugihara, Shigetaka
- Abstract
Ghrelin is a novel growth hormone-releasing peptide isolated from human and rat stomach that induces weight gain by increasing food intake and reducing fat utilization. Although recent data indicate that ghrelin is downregulated in human adult obesity, the characteristics of human obesity are heterogeneous, especially in children and adolescents, and depend on the distribution of subcutaneous and visceral fat tissue. We measured fasting plasma ghrelin concentrations by radioimmunoassay in 49 obese Japanese children and adolescents (38 boys and 11 girls; mean age 10.2 ± 2.8 years; BMI 28.0 ± 4.5 kg/m², percent overweight 56.0 ± 20.7%), and analyzed associations of their ghrelin concentrations with their body composition, insulin resistance, and adipocytokine concentrations. Fasting plasma ghrelin levels were negatively correlated with BMI and waist circumference, but not with percent overweight or percent body fat, whereas fasting leptin levels were positively correlated with all of the following parameters: BMI, waist circumference, percent overweight, and percent body fat. Plasma ghrelin levels were negatively correlated with fasting immunoreactive insulin, homeostasis model assessment insulin resistance index, and quantitative insulin sensitivity check index values. There was no correlation between plasma ghrelin and leptin, but ghrelin was negatively correlated with the PAI-1 concentrations. The results suggest that the downregulation of ghrelin secretion may be a consequence of higher insulin resistance associated with visceral fat accumulation and elevated PAI-1 concentrations, and not a consequence of total body fat accumulation associated with elevated leptin concentrations.
- Subjects
CHILDHOOD obesity; ADOLESCENT obesity; INSULIN resistance
- Publication
Diabetes, 2002, Vol 51, Issue 12, p3408
- ISSN
0012-1797
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2337/diabetes.51.12.3408