Does abdominal obesity accelerate the effect of hypertriglyceridemia on impaired fasting glucose?
OBJECTIVE
This study sought to determine whether abdominal obesity is a risk factor for impaired fasting glucose (IFG) and hypertriglyceridemia and to verify whether moderate effect of abdominal obesity on the relationship between IFG and hypertriglyceridemia in Korea.


METHODS
Data from the Korean National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey was used for the analysis. The study population included 5,938 subjects aged 20 year old drawn from non-diabetic participants in a health examination survey. The subjects were classified according to the presence of abdominal obesity based on waist circumference, IFG based on their fasting blood glucose level, and hypertriglyceridemia on their fasting triglyceride.


RESULTS
The multivariate-adjusted odds ratios for the occurrence of hypertriglyceridemia were 2.91 in the abdominal obesity group as compared with the nonobesity group and 1.31 in subjects with IFG compared with the normoglycemia controls. Abdominal obesity was found to be positively moderated in the interaction between waist circumference and fasting blood sugar.


CONCLUSIONS
The moderate effect between abdominal obesity and IFG contributes to the development of hypertriglyceridemia in Korea.
Lee
Soojin
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Department of Preventive Medicine and Public Health, Ajou University School of Medicine, San 5 Woncheon-dong, Yeongtong-gu, Suwon 443-749, Korea.
Chun
Kihong
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Lee
Soonyoung
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Kim
Daejung
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D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001786:Blood Glucose / Q000378:metabolism*; D005215:Fasting / Q000097:blood; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D015228:Hypertriglyceridemia / Q000097:blood* / Q000473:pathology*; D016015:Logistic Models; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D056128:Obesity, Abdominal / Q000503:physiopathology*; D014280:Triglycerides / Q000097:blood; D055105:Waist Circumference / Q000502:physiology; D055815:Young Adult
D001786:Blood Glucose; D014280:Triglycerides