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Metabolic endotoxaemia in childhood obesity
BACKGROUND: Childhood obesity is associated with chronic low-grade inflammation considered as a precursor to metabolic disease; however, the underlying mechanisms for this remain unclear. Studies in adults have implicated gut derived gram-negative bacterial fragments known as lipopolysaccharide or e...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4728817/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26819711 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40608-016-0083-7 |
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author | Varma, Madhusudhan C. Kusminski, Christine M. Azharian, Sahar Gilardini, Luisa Kumar, Sudhesh Invitti, Cecilia McTernan, Philip G. |
author_facet | Varma, Madhusudhan C. Kusminski, Christine M. Azharian, Sahar Gilardini, Luisa Kumar, Sudhesh Invitti, Cecilia McTernan, Philip G. |
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description | BACKGROUND: Childhood obesity is associated with chronic low-grade inflammation considered as a precursor to metabolic disease; however, the underlying mechanisms for this remain unclear. Studies in adults have implicated gut derived gram-negative bacterial fragments known as lipopolysaccharide or endotoxin, activating the inflammatory response, whilst the importance in childhood obesity is unclear. The aim of this research is to understand the relationship between circulating endotoxin in childhood obesity, and its’ association with inflammatory and cardiovascular (CV) injury biomarkers. METHODS: Fasted blood was obtained from children with varying degrees of obesity (age: 13.9 ± 2.3Yr; BMI: 35.1 ± 5.2 Kg/m(2); n = 60). Multiplex CVD biomarker immunoassays were used to determine systemic levels of inflammatory and vascular injury biomarkers, such as tumour necrosis factor-α (TNF-α), interleukin (IL-) 1β, 6, 8 and 10, plasminogen activator inhibitor-1 (PAI-1), soluble intercellular adhesion molecule type-1 (sICAM-1), matrix metalloproteinase-9 (MMP-9), myeloperoxidase (MPO) and vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) as well as endotoxin levels. RESULTS: Endotoxin levels demonstrated a significant and positive correlation with the markers for inflammation, vascular injury and atherogenesis (TNF-α: r(2) = 0.077, p < 0.05; PAI-1: r(2) = 0.215, p < 0.01; sICAM-1: r(2) = 0.159, p < 0.01; MMP-9: r(2) = 0.159, p < 0.01; MPO: r(2) = 0.07, p < 0.05; VEGF: r(2) = 0.161, p < 0.01). Males demonstrated significantly higher circulating endotoxin than females (Males: 9.63 ± 5.34 EU/ml; p = 0.004; Females: 5.56 ± 4.06 EU/ml; n = 60) in these BMI and age-matched cohorts. CONCLUSION: The present study demonstrates for the first time a significant association between circulating endotoxin and biomarkers of metabolic risk in children as young as 11 years. Thus, endotoxin-mediated sub-clinical inflammation during childhood obesity may be a key contributor to T2DM and CVD development later in life. |
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spelling | pubmed-47288172016-01-27 Metabolic endotoxaemia in childhood obesity Varma, Madhusudhan C. Kusminski, Christine M. Azharian, Sahar Gilardini, Luisa Kumar, Sudhesh Invitti, Cecilia McTernan, Philip G. BMC Obes Research Article BACKGROUND: Childhood obesity is associated with chronic low-grade inflammation considered as a precursor to metabolic disease; however, the underlying mechanisms for this remain unclear. Studies in adults have implicated gut derived gram-negative bacterial fragments known as lipopolysaccharide or endotoxin, activating the inflammatory response, whilst the importance in childhood obesity is unclear. The aim of this research is to understand the relationship between circulating endotoxin in childhood obesity, and its’ association with inflammatory and cardiovascular (CV) injury biomarkers. METHODS: Fasted blood was obtained from children with varying degrees of obesity (age: 13.9 ± 2.3Yr; BMI: 35.1 ± 5.2 Kg/m(2); n = 60). Multiplex CVD biomarker immunoassays were used to determine systemic levels of inflammatory and vascular injury biomarkers, such as tumour necrosis factor-α (TNF-α), interleukin (IL-) 1β, 6, 8 and 10, plasminogen activator inhibitor-1 (PAI-1), soluble intercellular adhesion molecule type-1 (sICAM-1), matrix metalloproteinase-9 (MMP-9), myeloperoxidase (MPO) and vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) as well as endotoxin levels. RESULTS: Endotoxin levels demonstrated a significant and positive correlation with the markers for inflammation, vascular injury and atherogenesis (TNF-α: r(2) = 0.077, p < 0.05; PAI-1: r(2) = 0.215, p < 0.01; sICAM-1: r(2) = 0.159, p < 0.01; MMP-9: r(2) = 0.159, p < 0.01; MPO: r(2) = 0.07, p < 0.05; VEGF: r(2) = 0.161, p < 0.01). Males demonstrated significantly higher circulating endotoxin than females (Males: 9.63 ± 5.34 EU/ml; p = 0.004; Females: 5.56 ± 4.06 EU/ml; n = 60) in these BMI and age-matched cohorts. CONCLUSION: The present study demonstrates for the first time a significant association between circulating endotoxin and biomarkers of metabolic risk in children as young as 11 years. Thus, endotoxin-mediated sub-clinical inflammation during childhood obesity may be a key contributor to T2DM and CVD development later in life. BioMed Central 2016-01-27 /pmc/articles/PMC4728817/ /pubmed/26819711 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40608-016-0083-7 Text en © Varma et al. 2016 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Varma, Madhusudhan C. Kusminski, Christine M. Azharian, Sahar Gilardini, Luisa Kumar, Sudhesh Invitti, Cecilia McTernan, Philip G. Metabolic endotoxaemia in childhood obesity |
title | Metabolic endotoxaemia in childhood obesity |
title_full | Metabolic endotoxaemia in childhood obesity |
title_fullStr | Metabolic endotoxaemia in childhood obesity |
title_full_unstemmed | Metabolic endotoxaemia in childhood obesity |
title_short | Metabolic endotoxaemia in childhood obesity |
title_sort | metabolic endotoxaemia in childhood obesity |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4728817/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26819711 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40608-016-0083-7 |
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