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Revista de Salud Pública
Print version ISSN 0124-0064
Abstract
A. NIETO, Olga et al. Obesity and inflammation in students of a Colombian public university. Rev. salud pública [online]. 2020, vol.22, n.6, pp.582-588. Epub May 25, 2021. ISSN 0124-0064. https://doi.org/10.15446/rsap.v22n6.71196.
Objective
To describe the relationship between obesity and proinflammatory variables in the student population of the University of Quindío.
Methods
A cross-sectional descriptive study in which 155 students participated. Firstly, the glycemia was made by conventional methods, the insulinemia and the cytokines were measured by ELISA; IMC and HOMA-IR index were calculated. Then, the information was analyzed in the Statgraphics software to establish relationships between the variables were established through multiple regression and thus statistically significant difference was considered when the p value was ≤0.05.
Results
The prevalence of obesity by BMI was of 4.6%, of overweight 20.5% and of abdominal obesity by waist circumference was of 18.5%. The average insulinemia was 8.5 pUI/ml ±6.4 and the HOMA-IR index was 1.75. 18.5% had insulin resistance. Interferon gamma was found at 4.6±12.0 pg/mL, IL-6 at 5.1±15.5 pg/mL and TNF alpha at 3.2±11.1 pg/mL. The greatest variation explained (R2) is presented by insulinemia, the waist/hip index and the Homa-IR index. IL-6 was the cytokine that presented the greatest variation explained.
Conclusions
There is a relationship between inflammatory cytokines such as IL-6 with the waist/hip index, diastolic pressure, insulinemia and the Homa-IR index.
Keywords : Obesity; insulin resistance; interleukin-6; interferon-gamma (source: MeSH, NLM).