Abstract
Objectives
Obesity-induced insulin resistance (IR) is known to influence hepatic cytokines (hepatokines), including fibroblast growth factor (FGF-21), fetuin-A, and chemerin. This study aimed to investigate the association between hepatokines and markers of endothelial dysfunction and vascular reactivity in obese adolescents.
Methods
A total of 45 obese adolescents were categorized into three groups based on glucose tolerance: normal glucose tolerance (NGT), prediabetes (PD), and type 2 diabetes (T2D). We examined the relationships between FGF-21, fetuin-A, and chemerin with endothelial markers (plasminogen activator inhibitor-1 [PAI-1], intercellular adhesion molecule-1 [ICAM-1], and vascular cell adhesion marker-1 [VCAM-1]) and vascular surrogates (brachial artery reactivity testing [BART] and peak reactive hyperemia [PRH]).
Results
Obese adolescents (age 16.2±1.2 years; 62 % female, 65 % Hispanic) with NGT (n=20), PD (n=14), and T2D (n=11) had significant differences between groups in BMI; waist-hip ratio (p=0.05), systolic BP (p=0.008), LDL-C (p=0.02), PAI-1 (p<0.001). FGF-21 pg/mL (mean±SD: NGT vs. PD vs. T2D 54±42; 266±286; 160±126 p=0.006) and fetuin-A ng/mL (266±80; 253±66; 313±50 p=0.018), were significantly different while chemerin ng/mL (26±5; 31±10; 28±2) did not significantly differ between the groups. Positive correlations were found between chemerin and both PAI-1 (r=0.6; p=0.05) and ICAM-1 (r=0.6; p=0.05), FGF-21 and PAI-1 (r=0.6; p<0.001), and fetuin-A with TNFα (r=−0.4; p=0.05). Negative correlations were found between chemerin and PRH (r= −0.5; p=0.017) and fetuin-A and PRH (r=−0.4; p=0.05).
Conclusions
In our cohort, IR predicted higher FGF-21 levels suggesting a linear relationship may exist between the two parameters. Hepatokines can augment alterations in the microvascular milieu in obese adolescents as demonstrated by their associations with the markers PAI-1, ICAM-1, and PRH.
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Research ethics: The study received approval from the New York University Institutional Review Board.
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Informed consent: Informed consent was obtained from all individuals included in this study.
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Author contributions: All authors have accepted responsibility for the entire content of this manuscript and approved its submission.
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Competing interests: Authors state no conflict of interest.
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Research funding: None declared.
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Artikel in diesem Heft
- Frontmatter
- Review
- The effect of GnRH analog treatment on BMI in children treated for precocious puberty: a systematic review and meta-analysis
- Original Articles
- Association of hepatokines with markers of endothelial dysfunction and vascular reactivity in obese adolescents
- Evaluation of cardiac electrophysiological features in patients with premature adrenarche
- Growth hormone treatment in children with short stature: impact of the diagnosis on parents
- Ovarian reserve and fertility parameters in post-pubertal females with congenital adrenal hyperplasia: a case-control study
- Early change of retinal nerve fiber layer in children with type 1 diabetes mellitus in northern China
- Investigating the connection among thyroid function, sensitivity to thyroid hormones, and metabolic syndrome in euthyroid children and adolescents affected by type 1 diabetes
- Surgical treatment of secondary hyperparathyroidism in children with chronic kidney disease. Experience in 19 patients
- Short Communication
- Decline in case rates of youth onset type 2 diabetes in year three of the COVID-19 pandemic
- Letters to the Editor
- The effect of phenylketonuria on family quality of life
- Struggle for the future health of adolescent patients with phenylketonuria and parents with a sick child due to the economic crisis
- Case Reports
- A new onset drug induced diabetes mellitus presenting with diabetic ketoacidosis in a child undergoing treatment for B cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia. A case report and review of literature
- Late diagnosis of the X-linked MCT8 deficiency (Allan–Herndon–Dudley syndrome) in a teenage girl with primary ovarian insufficiency
- An infant developing hypercalcemia and hypophosphatemia due to the use of exclusively almond milk
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Artikel in diesem Heft
- Frontmatter
- Review
- The effect of GnRH analog treatment on BMI in children treated for precocious puberty: a systematic review and meta-analysis
- Original Articles
- Association of hepatokines with markers of endothelial dysfunction and vascular reactivity in obese adolescents
- Evaluation of cardiac electrophysiological features in patients with premature adrenarche
- Growth hormone treatment in children with short stature: impact of the diagnosis on parents
- Ovarian reserve and fertility parameters in post-pubertal females with congenital adrenal hyperplasia: a case-control study
- Early change of retinal nerve fiber layer in children with type 1 diabetes mellitus in northern China
- Investigating the connection among thyroid function, sensitivity to thyroid hormones, and metabolic syndrome in euthyroid children and adolescents affected by type 1 diabetes
- Surgical treatment of secondary hyperparathyroidism in children with chronic kidney disease. Experience in 19 patients
- Short Communication
- Decline in case rates of youth onset type 2 diabetes in year three of the COVID-19 pandemic
- Letters to the Editor
- The effect of phenylketonuria on family quality of life
- Struggle for the future health of adolescent patients with phenylketonuria and parents with a sick child due to the economic crisis
- Case Reports
- A new onset drug induced diabetes mellitus presenting with diabetic ketoacidosis in a child undergoing treatment for B cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia. A case report and review of literature
- Late diagnosis of the X-linked MCT8 deficiency (Allan–Herndon–Dudley syndrome) in a teenage girl with primary ovarian insufficiency
- An infant developing hypercalcemia and hypophosphatemia due to the use of exclusively almond milk
- New data supporting that early diagnosis and treatment are possible and necessary in intracellular cobalamin depletion: the case of transcobalamin II deficiency