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Abstract

The Ominous Link between Obesity and Abdominal Adiposity with Diabetes and Diabetic Dyslipidemia in Diabetic Population of Developing Country by Manisha Sankhla, Tarun Kumar Sharma, Sushila Gahlot, Jai Singh Rathor, Satish Kumar Vardey, Maheep Sinha, G.G. Kaushik, Amita K. Gadhok, Veena Singh Ghalaut, Keerti Mathur, Ragini Singh

Background: Individuals with obesity and abdominal adiposity are at higher risk for hyperinsulinaemia, insulin resistance, and diabetes. This study was, therefore, designed to evaluate the association of both generalized and re-gional obesity with metabolic variables and biochemical indices.
Methods: 200 confirmed patients of type-2diabetes of either gender were studied.
Results: A statistically significant degree of dyslipidemia was depicted in obese class-II subjects; however, females had a lower degree of dyslipidemia as compared to male subjects with statistically significant results only for HDL-C. Further, multiple logistic regression analysis revealed that BMI is a stronger predictor of FPG and HbA1c as compared to WHR.
Conclusions: Higher plasma glucose levels were depicted at a lower BMI, which turned out to be stronger predic-tor of glycemic control as compared to WHR. Moreover, BMI, WHR and male gender was significantly correlated with the metabolic parameters and even much more pronounced association with BMI.

DOI: 10.7754/Clin.Lab.2012.120317