title: The characteristics of pre-diabetic patients associated with body composition and cardiovascular disease risk factors in the Iranian population.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Different populations have shown various patterns of association between impaired fasting glucose (IFG) and body composition parameters and risk factors of cardiovascular disease (CVD). The current study aimed at investigating the differences between persons with prediabetes and healthy people in terms of CVD risk factors including body composition parameters, blood pressure, and lipid profile in a sample of the Iranian population.
  
  
  METHODS
  In a case-control setting, a sample containing 386 (193 prediabetic subjects and 193 normal subjects) of the first-degree relatives of diabetic patients aged 35-55 years were investigated. Samples were assessed using glucose tolerance categories. Prediabetes was defined according to the American Diabetes Association (ADA) criteria. Body composition parameters, blood pressure, glucose parameters, and lipid profile were measured and compared between the two groups.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Prediabetic patients had higher body mass index (BMI), waist circumference (WC), and body fat (BF) in comparison to the control group (P< 0.05). In addition, prediabetic subject had a higher intake of energy, carbohydrate, protein, fat, and cholesterol and it seems that these patients had an unhealthy dietary intake (P< 0.05). Fasting blood glucose (FBG) (P< 0.001), total cholesterol (P= 0.007), low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C), and triglyceride (P= 0.021) were higher in prediabetic patients (P< 0.05) than in the controls.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Both the risk factors of CVD and body composition parameters were different between the prediabetic and normal groups; total cholesterol (TC), triglyceride (TG), and FBS were predictors of the risk of prediabetes.
authors.affiliation: Department of Community Nutrition, Food Security Research Center, School of Nutrition and Food Sciences, Isfahan, Iran.
authors.forename: Zahra
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Gholi
authors.affiliation: Child Growth and Development Research Center, Research Institute for Primordial Prevention of Non-Communicable Disease, Isfahan, Iran.
authors.forename: Motahar
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Heidari-Beni
authors.affiliation: Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Isfahan Endocrine and Metabolism Research Center, School of Health, Isfahan, Iran.
authors.forename: Awat
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Feizi
authors.affiliation: Department of Internal Medicine and Endocrinology, Isfahan Endocrine and Metabolism Research Center, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran.
authors.forename: Bijan
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Iraj
authors.affiliation: Department of Community Nutrition, Food Security Research Center, School of Nutrition and Food Sciences, Isfahan, Iran.
authors.forename: Gholamreza
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Askari
keywords: Body composition; cardiovascular disease risk factors; lipids; prediabetes; risk factors