title: Glucose and insulin response to a glucose load in Salisbury blacks. Part I. The effect of standards of living.
abstract: An oral glucose load was given in 238 Black adult males living in Salisbury, Rhodesia, and their metabolic responses were measured. Also determined were the body mass index and maximum volume of oxygen intake per kilogram body mass during the course of a measured work load. Subjects were stratified into groups by socio-economic status, income and level of formal education. The higher the socio-economic status of Blacks the higher the levels of serum insulin and the body mass index, and the lower the maximum volume of oxygen per kilogram body mass. This trend with serum insulin was statistically independent of duration of urban residence and area of tribal origin. On multiple regression analysis the increase in serum insulin with rise in socio-economic status was independent of age and body mass index and was dependent on the indirect effect of maximum volume of oxygen intake.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D044383:Black People; D001786:Blood Glucose / Q000032:analysis*; D004032:Diet; D005947:Glucose / Q000494:pharmacology*; D005951:Glucose Tolerance Test; D006801:Humans; D007328:Insulin / Q000097:blood*; D008297:Male; D012907:Smoking; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D014505:Urban Population; D015030:Zimbabwe
chemical_list: D001786:Blood Glucose; D007328:Insulin; D005947:Glucose