Lifestyle-Intervention-Induced Reduction of Abdominal Fat Is Reflected by a 
Decreased Circulating Glycerol Level and an Increased HDL Diameter

Beekman, M.; Schutte, B. A. M.; Akker, Ebvd; Noordam, R.; Dibbets-Schneider, P.; de Geus-Oei, L. F.; Deelen, J.; Rest, O. V.; Heemst, D. V.; Feskens, E. J. M.; Slagboom, P. E.

doi:10.1002/mnfr.201900818

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Lifestyle-Intervention-Induced Reduction of Abdominal Fat Is Reflected by a Decreased Circulating Glycerol Level and an Increased HDL Diameter

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Deelen, J.
Deelen – Genetics and Biomarkers of Human Ageing, Research Groups, Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing, Max Planck Society;

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Beekman, M., Schutte, B. A. M., Akker, E., Noordam, R., Dibbets-Schneider, P., de Geus-Oei, L. F., et al. (2020). Lifestyle-Intervention-Induced Reduction of Abdominal Fat Is Reflected by a Decreased Circulating Glycerol Level and an Increased HDL Diameter. Mol Nutr Food Res, 64(10), e1900818. doi:10.1002/mnfr.201900818.

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SCOPE: Abdominal obesity is one of the main modifiable risk factors of age-related cardiometabolic disease. Cardiometabolic disease risk and its associated high abdominal fat mass, cholesterol, and glucose concentrations can be reduced by a healthier lifestyle. Hence, the aim is to understand the relation between lifestyle-induced changes in body composition, and specifically abdominal fat, and accompanying changes in circulating metabolic biomarkers. METHODS AND RESULTS: Data from the Growing Old Together (GOTO) study was used, which is a single arm lifestyle intervention in which 164 older adults (mean age 63 years, BMI 23-35 kg/m(2) ) changed their lifestyle during 13 weeks by 12.5% caloric restriction plus 12.5% increase in energy expenditure. It is shown here that levels of circulating metabolic biomarkers, even after adjustment for body mass index, specifically associate with abdominal fat mass. The applied lifestyle intervention mainly reduces abdominal fat mass (-2.6%, SD = 3.0) and this reduction, when adjusted for general weight loss, is highly associated with decreased circulating glycerol concentrations and increased HDL diameter. CONCLUSION: The lifestyle-induced reduction of abdominal fat mass is particularly associated, independent of body mass index or general weight loss, with decreased circulating glycerol concentrations and increased HDL diameter.