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Shaun Sabico

Assistant Professor

Assistant Professor and Deputy Director

كلية العلوم
Chair for Biomarkers of Chronic Diseases, Biochemistry Department, College of Science, KSU
المنشورات
مقال فى مجلة
2014

Does visceral adiposity index signify early metabolic risk in children and adolescents?: association with insulin resistance, adipokines, and subclinical inflammation

BACKGROUND:

Visceral adiposity index (VAI) is a novel gender-specific index based on waist circumference (WC), BMI, and lipid parameters. Although VAI does not actually estimate visceral adiposity, it accurately reflects visceral fat function and insulin resistance. This index has not been studied in children thus far. This study aims to fill this gap.

METHODS:

In a cohort of Saudi children and adolescents, anthropometric measurements and metabolic/hormonal profile were obtained.

RESULTS:

A total of 543 subjects, 292 of whom were boys, were included (mean age: 11.9 ± 3.3 y; BMI: 19.8 ± 5.6 kg/m(2)). In all subjects, VAI was inferior to BMI and WC regarding its correlations with adiponectin, leptin, insulin resistance (homeostasis model of assessment-insulin resistance (HOMA-IR)), C-reactive protein (CRP) level, and systolic blood pressure, but it exhibited a stronger association with glucose in boys (r = 0.23; P < 0.01). In stepwise multivariate analyses, only BMI was consistent as an independent predictor of adiponectin, leptin, HOMA-IR, and CRP. VAI was the only index independently associated with glucose.

CONCLUSION:

Although VAI is related to glucose in children, it seems to be inferior to BMI in terms of association with insulin resistance, adipokines, and subclinical inflammation. Until specific studies can be performed in children, VAI should be extrapolated with caution in this age range.

نوع عمل المنشور
Observational
رقم المجلد
75
رقم الانشاء
3
مجلة/صحيفة
Pediatric Research 2014
الصفحات
459-463
مزيد من المنشورات
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Hyperglycemia associated with prediabetes (PD) alters NLRP3 inflammasome activity and related interleukins, yet no study has evaluated the expression of the NLRP3 inflammasome complex and related…

بواسطة Alfadul H, Sabico S, Alnaami AM, Amer OE, Hussain SD, Wani K, Clerici M, Al-Daghri NM
2023
تم النشر فى:
MDPI
publications

Objectives

بواسطة Aljuraiban GS, Algabsani S, Sabico S, Alshammari S, Aljazairy E, Al-Musharaf S
2023
تم النشر فى:
Elsevier
publications

The Metabolically Healthy Obese (MHO) is a unique phenotype of obesity in which individuals match the operational definition of obesity but do not display metabolic complications. Given this…

بواسطة Kaiser Wani , Balvir Kumar , Iram Saba , Shaun Sabico
2023
تم النشر فى:
Biolife Sas