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[Insulin-glucose ratio and body fat composition in patients with chronic anovulation and sterility]
V S Vital Reyes1, M C Enríquez Miranda, E Martínez Martínez
1Departmento de Biología de la Reproducción y Ginecoendocrinología, Hospital de Ginecobstetricia Número 3, Centro Médico Nacional La Raza, Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social, México, D.F.
Abstract:
A clinical, descriptive, and transversal study was conducted in a group of patients with chronic anovulation and sterility, to correlate insulin resistance, determined by the fasting glucose/insulin ratio, with body fat composition using anthropometrics parameters and the interaction of light near infrared region method, we studied 41 young patients with chronic anovulation and sterility. Based on their body mass index, all patients had obesity or overweight. Similarly, most of them presented with a percentage of body fat over the recommended limits. Forty percent of all studied patients had a fasting glucose/insulin ratio below 4.5, which corresponds to insulin resistance. The correlation between the percentage of body fat and fasting glucose/insulin ratio was significant, as was the correlation between body mass index and the percentage of body fat. We found overweight or obesity in the majority of our patients, and insulin resistance in almost half of them. Such disturbances were positively associated with the percentage of body fat and android distribution. Therefore, we recommend a routinely anthropometrics evaluation in these patients as well as fasting glucose/insulin ratio determination in order to act in an early stage over the natural history of metabolic syndrome, whose common denominator is insulin resistance.
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