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Lipotoxicity-causing fatty acid overexposure and accretion in lean tissues leads to insulin resistance and impaired pancreatic β-cell function - the hallmarks of T2D - contributing to associated complications such as heart failure, kidney failure and microvascular diseases. Proper dietary fatty acid (DFA) storage in white adipose tissue (WAT) is now thought to prevent lean-tissue lipotoxicity. Using novel Positron-Emission Tomography (PET) and stable isotopic tracer methods which were developed in Sherbrooke, the investigator showed that WAT storage of DFA is impaired in people with pre-diabetes or T2D. The investigator also showed that this impairment is associated with greater cardiac DFA uptake, as well as subclinical left-ventricular systolic and diastolic dysfunction. Then, It has been found that modest weight loss in pre-diabetics, after a one-year lifestyle intervention, improved WAT DFA storage, curbed cardiac DFA uptake, and restored associated left-ventricular dysfunction. It has been also found that a 7-day low-saturated fat, low-calorie diet raised insulin sensitivity but did not restore WAT or cardiac DFA metabolism. Whether WAT DFA storage directly impacts cardiac DFA uptake is not known. Importantly, the investigator recently uncovered marked sex-specific differences in WAT DFA metabolism. These may explain, at least in part, sex-related differences in the cardiac DFA uptake, which occurs in pre-diabetes. Higher spillover of WAT DFA into circulating Non-Esterified Fatty Acid (NEFA) appears to be linked in women to greater cardiac DFA uptake, as opposed to direct cardiac chylomicron triglycerides (TG) uptake in men. Here, the investigator will isolate and compare organ-specific fatty acid uptake occurring postprandially from chylomicron-TG vs. NEFA pools, as well as the oxidative vs. non-oxidative intracellular metabolic pathways associated with increased cardiac DFA uptake in pre-diabetic men and women.


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NCT number NCT02808182
Study type Interventional
Source Université de Sherbrooke
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Status Completed
Phase N/A
Start date January 17, 2017
Completion date May 2021

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