Endocrine Abstracts

Context: Weight-reducing dietary intervention (DI) promotes an improvement in insulin sensitivity (IS) since early stage of the diet. The diet-induced changes of plasma levels of cytokines and chemokines that are expressed in adipose tissue (adipokines) have been suggested to play a role.Aim: To examine relationship between the diet-induced changes of IS (assessed using homeostatic model assessment of insulin resistance (HOMA-IR)) and those of plasma adi...