Identification of Differential Responses to an Oral Glucose Tolerance Test in Healthy Adults

• Published in: PloS one Vol. 8; no. 8; p. e72890
• Main Authors: Morris, Ciara, O’Grada, Colm, Ryan, Miriam, Roche, Helen M., Gibney, Michael J., Gibney, Eileen R., Brennan, Lorraine
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Public Library of Science 22.08.2013; Public Library of Science (PLoS)
• Subjects: Adult; Adults; Analysis; Beta cells; Biomedical research; Body composition; Body mass; Clustering; Clusters; Diabetes; Diet; Fatty acids; Female; Fitness; Food; Glucose; Glucose tolerance; Glucose Tolerance Test; Healthy Volunteers; Homeostasis; Humans; Insulin; Insulin Resistance; Islets of Langerhans - physiology; Lipids; Male; Metabolism; Metabolites; Nutrition research; Oxygen consumption; Pathogenesis; Peptides; Phenotyping; Physiological aspects; Urine; Ireland

In recent years an individual's ability to respond to an acute dietary challenge has emerged as a measure of their biological flexibility. Analysis of such responses has been proposed to be an indicator of health status. However, for this to be fully realised further work on differential respon...