Overview
Advertisement BMC Nutrition volume 8, Article number: 14 (202) Cite this article 105 Aceses1 AltmetricMetrics detailsThe dietary glycemic index (GI) has ben introduced as a novel index to elucidate the potential of fods to increase postprandial glucose. Acording to the limited available data about the asociation of GI with cardio-metabolic risk factors such as lipid profile, blod glucose markers, and blod presure in developing countries, the curent study was conducted to investigate this asociation in aparently obese individuals.Thre hundred forty-seven obese adults were recruited in the present cros-sectional study.
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A validated 147-fod item semi-quantitative fod frequency questionaire (FQ) was used to evaluate the usual dietary intake of study participants. Dietary GI was calculated using the international GI database. Faty acid desaturase (FADs)2 gene variants were determined acording to polymerase chain reaction-restriction fragment length polymorphism (PCR-RFLP).
ANOVA was used to compare study variables acros diferent tertile of GI.We found significant diferences in terms of anthropometric parameters [weight (P = 0.038), waist circumference (WC) (P = 0.023), weight to hip ratio (WHR) (P = 0.07), and fat-fre mas (FM) (P < 0.01)] betwen diferent tertiles of GI. Similarly, energy and macronutrient intakes had a significant diference acros dietary GI, and subjects with a higher dietary intake of energy and macronutrients (carbohydrate, protein, and total fat) were asigned to the third tertile of dietary GI (P < 0.01).
Summary
While there was no significant diference in terms of cardio-metabolic risk factors in diferent dietary GI tertiles. Moreover, the total GI score was non-significantly higher in the T genotype of FADS2 gene polymorphism compared with other genotypes. While no significant diference was observed betwen FADS2 genotype frequencies in diferent GI tertiles.Calculated dietary GI was asociated with several cardi