Metabolic profile and insulin sensitivity in healthy young Mexicans with a strong family history of non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus in the paternal branch
González-Ortíz, M.; Martínez-Abundis, E.; Cardona-Muñoz, E.G.; Lifshitz, A.; Quiñones-Galván, A.
Archives of Medical Research 28(3): 421-424
1997
ISSN/ISBN: 0188-4409 PMID: 9291642 Document Number: 475179
The objective was to identify early metabolic defects and insulin sensitivity in a group of healthy young Mexicans with a family history of NIDDM in first and second degree on the paternal branch. The design was a cross-sectional study, and the setting was a hospital and a school of medicine in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico. The subjects were 20 healthy, non-obese, young (age 19-20 years), born in Mexico, with family history of NIDDM in first and second degree in the paternal branch, and 20 controls. Measurements were serum values of creatinin, uric acid, total cholesterol, high-density lipoprotein cholesterol, triglycerides, glucose, and insulin, insulin tolerance test, glucose/insulin ratio, LDL cholesterol, VLDL cholesterol, total cholesterol/HDL cholesterol ratio and LDL cholesterol/HDL cholesterol ratio. In terms of results, only the total cholesterol was slightly, although significantly (p = 0.05) higher in probands (4.3 +/- 0.5 mmol/L) than in control subjects (3.9 +/- 0.5 mmol/L). In conclusion, healthy young Mexicans with a strong family history of NIDDM in the paternal branch were not different in insulin sensitivity from those without family history of NIDDM, and only showed a slight increase in serum total cholesterol.