"Obesity and Insulin Resistance" Is the Component of the Metabolic Syndrome Most Strongly Associated with Oxidative Stress

Grzegorz K Jakubiak; Kamila Osadnik; Mateusz Lejawa; Tadeusz Osadnik; Marcin Goławski; Piotr Lewandowski; Natalia Pawlas

doi:10.3390/antiox11010079

"Obesity and Insulin Resistance" Is the Component of the Metabolic Syndrome Most Strongly Associated with Oxidative Stress

Antioxidants (Basel). 2021 Dec 29;11(1):79. doi: 10.3390/antiox11010079.

Authors

Grzegorz K Jakubiak^{1

2}, Kamila Osadnik¹, Mateusz Lejawa¹, Tadeusz Osadnik¹, Marcin Goławski³, Piotr Lewandowski³, Natalia Pawlas¹

Affiliations

¹ Department of Pharmacology, Faculty of Medical Sciences in Zabrze, Medical University of Silesia, Jordana 38 Street, 41-808 Zabrze, Poland.
² Department and Clinic of Internal Medicine, Angiology, and Physical Medicine, Faculty of Medical Sciences in Zabrze, Medical University of Silesia, Batorego 15 Street, 41-902 Bytom, Poland.
³ Student Research Group, Department of Pharmacology, Faculty of Medical Sciences in Zabrze, Medical University of Silesia, Jordana 38 Street, 41-808 Zabrze, Poland.

Abstract

Metabolic syndrome (MS) is not a homogeneous entity, but this term refers to the coexistence of factors that increase the risk for the development of type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease. There are different versions of the criteria for the diagnosis of MS, which makes the population of patients diagnosed with MS heterogeneous. Research to date shows that MS is associated with oxidative stress (OS), but it is unclear which MS component is most strongly associated with OS. The purpose of the study was to investigate the relationship between the parameters of OS and the presence of individual elements of MS in young adults, as well as to identify the components of MS by means of principal components analysis (PCA) and to investigate how the parameters of OS correlate with the presence of individual components. The study included 724 young adults with or without a family history of coronary heart disease (population of the MAGNETIC study). Blood samples were taken from the participants of the study to determine peripheral blood counts, biochemical parameters, and selected parameters of OS. In addition, blood pressure and anthropometric parameters were measured. In subjects with MS, significantly lower activity of superoxide dismutase (SOD), copper- and zinc-containing SOD (CuZnSOD), and manganese-containing SOD (MnSOD) were found, along with significantly higher total antioxidant capacity (TAC) and significantly lower concentration of thiol groups per gram of protein (PSH). We identified three components of MS by means of PCA: "Obesity and insulin resistance", "Dyslipidemia", and "Blood pressure", and showed the component "Obesity and insulin resistance" to have the strongest relationship with OS. In conclusion, we documented significant differences in some parameters of OS between young adults with and without MS. We showed that "Obesity and insulin resistance" is the most important component of MS in terms of relationship with OS.

Keywords: diabetes; dyslipidemia; hypertension; insulin resistance; metabolic syndrome; obesity; oxidative stress.

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