Insulin and extremity muscle mass in overweight and obese women

• Published in: International Journal of Obesity Vol. 37; no. 12; pp. 1560 - 1564
• Main Authors: Leon, B, Jenkins, S, Pepin, K, Chaudhry, H, Smith, K, Zalos, G, Miller, B V, Chen, K Y, Remaley, A T, Waclawiw, M A, Sumner, A E, Cannon, R O
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London Nature Publishing Group UK 01.12.2013; Nature Publishing Group
• Subjects: 692/420; 692/699/2743/393; 692/699/317; Absorptiometry, Photon; Adult; Biological and medical sciences; Black or African American - statistics & numerical data; Black people; Body Mass Index; Diabetes; Epidemiology; Exercise; Exercise Test; Extremities (Anatomy); Fasting - metabolism; Female; Fitness equipment; Health aspects; Health Promotion and Disease Prevention; Humans; Hyperinsulinism - metabolism; Hyperinsulinism - physiopathology; Hypotheses; Insulin; Insulin Resistance; Internal Medicine; Kidney diseases; Medical sciences; Medicine; Medicine & Public Health; Metabolic Diseases; Middle Aged; Miscellaneous; Muscle, Skeletal - metabolism; Muscle, Skeletal - pathology; Muscles; Musculoskeletal system; Obesity; Obesity - epidemiology; Obesity - metabolism; Obesity - physiopathology; original-article; Overweight; Oxygen Consumption; Physiological aspects; Public Health; Public health. Hygiene; Public health. Hygiene-occupational medicine; Weight control; White people; White People - statistics & numerical data; Women; Womens health; United States; United States > US; weight loss; women’s health; insulin; skeletal muscle; Human; Obesity; Pancreatic hormone; Nutrition; Body weight; Nutrition disorder; Weight loss; Metabolic diseases; Corporal biometry; Striated muscle; Insulin; Overweight; Mass; women's health; Female; Woman; Nutritional status; Public health

Background: Obesity disproportionately affects women, especially those of African descent, and is associated with increases in both fat and muscle masses. Objective: Although increased extremity muscle mass may be compensatory to fat mass load, we propose that elevated insulin levels resulting from...