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Peiwen Zhang1,2, Ke Chen3, Taiping He1,2
1Department of Nutrition, School of Public Health, Guangdong Medical University, Dongguan, People's Republic of China.
Background:
In previous study, we found that coenzyme Q10 (CoQ10) improved glucolipid profile in dyslipidemic individuals, but the mechanism is not yet clear. Adipokines have been demonstrated to be vital targets of metabolic diseases. The hypothesis that adipokines mediate the association of CoQ10 on glucolipid metabolism needs to be further studied in human.
Methods:
In this randomized, double-blinded, placebo-controlled trial, 101 dyslipidemic individuals were administrated to 120 mg CoQ10 or placebo for 24 weeks. Anthropometric parameters, glucolipid profile, serum total adiponectin, leptin, and resistin were evaluated at baseline, week 12 and week 24.
Results:
CoQ10 treatment significantly increased serum adiponectin levels at week 12 (165 [0, 362] ng/mL, p < 0.001) and at week 24 (523 [0, 1056] ng/mL, p < 0.001]), which was significant different compared with placebo (p < 0.001). The increase of adiponectin was negative associated with decrease in index of homeostasis model assessment of insulin resistance (HOMA-IR, r = - 0.465, p = 0.001), triglyceride (TG, r = - 0.297, p = 0.047), and low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-c, r = - 0.440, p = 0.002) at week 24 only in CoQ10-treated group. Resistin was reduced by CoQ10 only at week 24 (- 1.19 [- 4.35, 0.00] ng/mL, p < 0.001), which was significant different compared with placebo (p < 0.001). Reduction of resistin was positively correlated with the change in HOMA-IR (r = 0.343, p = 0.021) and TG (r = 0.323, p = 0.030) at week 24 in CoQ10-treated group but not placebo group. Leptin was not influenced by CoQ10 treatment. Mediation analysis indicated that the improvement of HOMA-IR, TG and LDL-c by CoQ10 was mediated by adiponectin but not resistin.
Conclusions:
Our study shows that CoQ10 ameliorates glucolipid profile and adipokines dysfunction in dyslipidemic patients in 24 weeks' intervention. The beneficial effect of CoQ10 on glucolipid profile was mediated by adiponectin.
Trial Registration:
ClinicalTrials.gov, NCT02407548. Registered on April 3, 2015, https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT02407548 .
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