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DIABETES
Volume 61, Issue 11, Pages 2711-2717Publisher
AMER DIABETES ASSOC
DOI: 10.2337/db12-0206
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- U.S. Public Health Service [R01-AG-23686, R01-DK-49230, R24-DK-085638, UL-RR-024139]
- American Diabetes Association
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Aging is closely associated with muscle insulin resistance, hyperlipidemia, nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), and type 2 diabetes. We examined the hypothesis that muscle insulin resistance in healthy aging promotes increased hepatic de novo lipogenesis (DNL) and hyperlipidemia by altering the distribution pattern of postprandial energy storage. Healthy, normal weight, sedentary elderly subjects pair-matched to young subjects were given two high-carbohydrate meals followed by C-13/H-1 magnetic resonance spectroscopy measurements of postprandial changes in muscle and liver glycogen and lipid content, and assessment of DNL using (H2O)-H-2. Net muscle glycogen synthesis was reduced by 45% (P < 0.007) in the elderly subjects compared with the young, reflecting severe muscle insulin resistance. Net liver glycogen synthesis was similar between groups (elderly, 143 +/- 23 mmol/L vs. young, 138 +/- 13 mmol/L; P = NS). Hepatic DNL was more than twofold higher in the elderly than in the young subjects (elderly, 14.5 +/- 1.4% vs. young, 6.9 +/- 0.7%; P = 0.00015) and was associated with approximately threefold higher postprandial hepatic triglyceride (TG) content (P < 0.005) and increased fasting plasma TGs (elderly, 1.19 +/- 0.18 mmol/L vs. young, 0.74 +/- 0.11 mmol/L; P = 0.02). These results strongly support the hypothesis that muscle insulin resistance in aging promotes hyperlipidemia and NAFLD by altering the pattern of postprandial carbohydrate storage away from muscle glycogen and into hepatic DNL. Diabetes 61:2711-2717, 2012
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