American Journal of Epidemiology Vol. 144, No. 3: 235-246
Copyright © 1996 by The Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health
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Increase in Fasting Insulin and Glucose over Seven Years with Increasing Weight and Inactivity of Young Adults
The CARDIA Study
1Division of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota Minneapolis, MN
2Department of Public Health Sciences, Bowman Gray School of Medicine Winston-Salem, NC
3Division of GeneraJ and Preventive Medicine, Department of Medicine, Medica] School, University of Minnesota Minneapolis, MN
4CARDIA Coordinating Center, University of Alabama at Birmingham Birmingham, AL
5National Institutes of Health, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, Division of Epidemiology and Clinical Applications Be-thesda, MD
6University of Alabama at Birmingham, Division of Preventive Medicine Birmingham, AL
7Bowman Gray School of Medicine, Hypertension Center Win-ston-Salem, NC
Reprint requests to Dr. Aaron R. Folsom, Division of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, Suite 300, 1300 South Second Street, Minneapolis, MN 554541015.
To characterize 7-year changes in fasting serum insulin and glucose concentrations, the authors analyzed population-based data on 3,095 nondiabetic black and white men and women who were initially aged 1830 years in the Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults (CARDIA) Study. Measurements were made of fasting insulin (by an assay with little cross-reactivity to proinsulin) and fasting glucose on frozen samples from baseline and Year 7 examinations. Over the 7-year period, mean fasting insulin increased 1025%, mean fasting glucose increased 710%, and mean body mass increased 712% across the four race-, sex-groups. The strongest predictor of both insulin increase and glucose increase was an increase in body mass over the 7 years. Adjusted for age and examination time period in race-, sex-specific repeated measures analyses, fasting insulin increased longitudinally by approximately 5 µ/mL per 5 kg/m2 increase in body mass index (p < 0.05). Adjusted for age and time period, fasting insulin increased over the 7 years by approximately 2.5 µU/mL per 0.08 unit increase in waist/hip ratio (p < 0.05), although this association was much stronger cross-sectionally. In a similar model, each 100 unit decrease in physical activity longitudinally predicted a 0.10.2 µU/ml increase in fasting insulin (p < 0.05 in black men only); this association was stronger and statistically significant in all race-, sex-groups cross-sectionally. Fasting insulin was not associated with energy intake either cross-sectionalty or longitudinally, but age- and time-adjusted associations of insulin change with change in several nutrients (e.g., energy from fat) were statistically significant in whites. The authors conclude that marked increase in weight in young adulthood adversely alters glucose and insulin metabolism, and that, if not reversed, this may lead to harmful health consequences in later life. Am J Epidemiol 1996; 144: 23546.
exercise; glucose; insulin; longitudinal studies; obesity
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