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Maltais-Payette, I.* ; Boulet, M.-M.* ; Prehn, C. ; Adamski, J. ; Tchernof, A.*

Circulating glutamate concentration as a biomarker of visceral obesity and associated metabolic alterations.

Nutr. Metab. 15:78 (2018)

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BackgroundVisceral adipose tissue (VAT) area is a strong predictor of obesity-related cardiometabolic alterations, but its measurement is costly, time consuming and, in some cases, involves radiation exposure. Glutamate, a by-product of branched-chain-amino-acid (BCAA) catabolism, has been shown to be increased in visceral obese individuals. In this follow-up data analysis, we aimed to investigate the ability of plasma glutamate to identify individuals with visceral obesity and concomitant metabolic alterations.MethodsMeasurements of adiposity, targeted blood metabolomics and cardiometabolic risk factors were performed in 59 healthy middle-aged women. Visceral and subcutaneous adipose tissue areas were measured by computed tomography (CT) whereas body fat and lean mass were assessed by dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry (DEXA).ResultsThe univariate Pearson correlation coefficient between glutamate and VAT area was r=0.46 (p<0.001) and it was r=0.36 (p=0.006) when adjusted for total body fat mass. Glutamate allowed to identify individuals with VAT areas 100cm(2) (ROC_AUC: 0.78, 95% CI: 0.66-0.91) and VAT 130cm(2) (ROC_AUC: 0.71, 95% CI: 0.56-0.87). The optimal glutamate concentration threshold determined from the ROC curve (glutamate 34.6mol/L) had a greater sensitivity than the metabolic syndrome (MetS) and the hypertriglyceridemic waist (HTW) phenotype to identify individuals with VAT 100cm(2) (83% for glutamate vs 52% for the MetS and 35% for the HTW). Variance analysis showed that women with a high circulating glutamate level (34.6mol/L) had an altered metabolic profile, particularly regarding total triglyceride levels and the amount of triglycerides and cholesterol in very-low-density lipoproteins (all p<0.01).ConclusionCirculating glutamate is strongly associated with VAT area and may represent a potential screening tool for visceral obesity and alterations of the metabolic profile.

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Publication type Article: Journal article

Document type Scientific Article

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Keywords Glutamate ; Metabolomics ; Branched-chain Amino Acids ; Visceral Obesity ; Waist Circumference; Amino-acid-metabolism; Cardiovascular-disease; Risk; Profiles; Humans; Index; Bmi

ISSN (print) / ISBN 1743-7075

e-ISSN 1743-7075

Journal Nutrition & metabolism

Quellenangaben Volume: 15, Issue: 1, Article Number: 78

Publisher BioMed Central

Publishing Place London

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Reviewing status Peer reviewed

Institute(s) Research Unit Genome Analysis Center (IEG-GAC)
Institute of Experimental Genetics (IEG)