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Dynamic change in insulin resistance induced by free fatty acids is unchanged though insulin sensitivity improves following endurance exercise in PCOS

Aye, Myint Myint; Butler, Alexandra E.; Kilpatrick, Eric S.; Kirk, Richard; Vince, Rebecca; Rigby, Alan S.; Sandeman, Derek; Atkin, Stephen L.

Authors

Myint Myint Aye

Alexandra E. Butler

Eric S. Kilpatrick

Richard Kirk

Alan S. Rigby

Derek Sandeman

Stephen L. Atkin



Abstract

Background: Insulin resistance (IR) is the hallmark of PCOS and it is known that exercise may decrease it. What is unknown is whether exercise may mechanistically alter the underlying IR, attenuating the dynamic lipid induced IR in insulin resistant subjects.
Methods: Twelve women with polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) and ten age and body mass index matched controls completed an eight week supervised exercise program at 60% maximal oxygen consumption. Before and after the exercise program, all participants underwent hyperinsulinaemic euglycaemic clamps with either saline or intralipid infusions. Skewed data were log transformed and expressed as mean ±SEM.
Results: Before exercise, women with PCOS had a higher HOMA-IR and lower VO2 max than controls. Compared to saline, lipid infusion lowered the rate of insulin stimulated glucose disposal (M value; mg/kg/min) by 67±5% (from 0.5±0.03 to -0.25±0.2, p=0.01) in PCOS, and by 49±7% (from 0.65±0.06 to 0.3±0.1, p=0.01) in controls. The M value was significantly less in PCOS compared to controls for both saline (p less than 0.01) and lipid (p less than 0.05). Endurance exercise in PCOS improved VO2 max and HOMA-IR, but not weight, to those of pre-exercise control subjects. The glucose disposal rate during the lipid infusion was reduced following exercise in PCOS, indicating decreased IR (67 ± 5 vs. 50 ± 7%, p = 0.02), but IR was not altered in controls (49 ± 7 vs. 45 ± 6%, p = 0.58). The incrementally increased IR induced by the lipid infusion did not differ between controls and PCOS.

Conclusion: Insulin sensitivity improved with exercise in the PCOS group alone showing that IR can be modified, though likely transiently. However, the maximal IR response to the lipid infusion did not differ within and between control and PCOS subjects, indicating that the fundamental mechanism underlying insulin resistance was unchanged with exercise.

Precis: Maximal insulin resistance induced by lipid infusion determined at baseline and 8 weeks after exercise in control and PCOS women did not differ, though insulin sensitivity increased in PCOS after exercise.

Citation

Aye, M. M., Butler, A. E., Kilpatrick, E. S., Kirk, R., Vince, R., Rigby, A. S., Sandeman, D., & Atkin, S. L. (2018). Dynamic change in insulin resistance induced by free fatty acids is unchanged though insulin sensitivity improves following endurance exercise in PCOS. Frontiers in endocrinology, 9(OCT), Article 592. https://doi.org/10.3389/fendo.2018.00592

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Sep 18, 2018
Online Publication Date Oct 5, 2018
Publication Date Oct 5, 2018
Deposit Date Sep 18, 2018
Publicly Available Date Nov 6, 2018
Print ISSN 1664-2392
Publisher Frontiers Media
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 9
Issue OCT
Article Number 592
DOI https://doi.org/10.3389/fendo.2018.00592
Keywords Insulin Resistance; Intralipid; Endurance exercise; PCOS (polycystic ovary syndrome); Insulin sensitivity
Public URL https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/1054948
Publisher URL https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fendo.2018.00592/full
Contract Date Sep 26, 2018

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© 2018 Aye, Butler, Kilpatrick, Kirk, Vince, Rigby, Sandeman and Atkin. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.


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