Circulating glucagon-like peptide-1 increases in response to short-term overfeeding in men

Nutrition & Metabolism

Table 3 Spearman correlations of changes in variables related to change in fasting serum GLP-1 concentration ^a,b

	All subjects (n = 72)		Normal weight (n = 30)		Overweight+Obese (n = 42)
	r	P	r	P	r	P
Weight (kg)	0.222	NS	0.354	NS	0.137	NS
BMI (kg/m²)	0.223	NS	0.348	NS	0.142	NS
Percent body fat	0.122	NS	0.168	NS	0.087	NS
Percent trunk fat	0.126	NS	0.221	NS	0.021	NS
Percent android fat	0.206	NS	0.286	NS	0.066	NS
Percent gynoid fat	−0.061	NS	−0.384	0.036	0.243	NS
Total cholesterol	0.219	NS	0.117	NS	0.334	0.030
HDL cholesterol	0.258	0.029	0.321	NS	0.188	NS
Total cholesterol:HDLc ratio	−0.005	NS	−0.171	NS	0.191	NS
LDL cholesterol	0.007	NS	−0.085	NS	0.195	NS
Triacylglycerols	0.543	<0.001	0.573	0.001	0.533	<0.001
Glucose	0.131	NS	0.226	NS	0.099	NS
Insulin	0.218	NS	0.187	NS	0.271	NS
HOMA-IR	0.212	NS	0.198	NS	0.229	NS
HOMA-β	0.127	NS	0.024	NS	0.174	NS

^a P<0.05 (IBM SPSS Statistics 19).
^b Homeostasis model assessment of insulin resistance (HOMA-IR) and of β cell function (HOMA-β); NS, non-significant. Subjects were classifed based on adiposity recommendations by Bray as normal weight (8–20.9%), overweight (21–25.9%), or obese (>26%).

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