Differential glucose metabolism in weight restored women with anorexia nervosa
Youngjung Kim1, Thomas Hildebrandt1, Laurel E S Mayer2
1Department of Psychiatry, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, NY 10029, USA.
Abstract:
Women with anorexia nervosa (AN) develop visceral adiposity associated with insulin resistance after partial weight restoration, but little is known about the glucose homeostasis after full weight restoration. In this investigation, we studied glucose homeostasis in twenty-four women with AN before (AN) and after weight restoration (WR) at a single institution, with both restricting and binge-purge subtypes (>70% binge-purge), compared to gender-, age- and BMI-matched healthy controls (HC). Participants underwent fasting plasma hormone analysis, oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT), and body composition analysis. Glucose homeostasis was assessed by the homeostasis model assessment (HOMA) and OGTT, and parameters were analyzed for association with body composition. We observed that a subset of the WR patients (21%) had metabolically unhealthy HOMA insulin resistance estimates (HOMA-IR), while this was not seen in the control group. Overall mean HOMA-IR between groups were not significantly different. Mean glucose reactivity was higher in the WR group than HC women (p = 0.008, Hedges' g = 0.811), and time-adjusted glucose reactivity in the WR group was inversely associated with visceral adiposity (r = -0.559, p = 0.006), but not with fat mass (r = -273, p = 0.208) or lean mass (r = -0.002, p = 0.994). Our findings suggest that glucose response during the OGTT in women with AN is altered in association with visceral adiposity acutely after full weight restoration, but that they do not develop overt insulin resistance. Glucometabolic profiling could offer novel insights to energy homeostasis acutely after weight restoration.
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