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Original Research Communication |
1 From the Department of Surgery, The University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston; the Shriners' Burns Hospital, Galveston, TX; and the Department of Internal Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis.
Background: High-carbohydrate (HC) diets are recommended for lowering the risk of coronary heart disease because they decrease plasma LDL-cholesterol concentrations. However, an unfavorable effect of HC diets is an increase in plasma triacylglycerol concentrations. The underlying mechanisms of this effect are still unclear.
Objective: We examined the effect of diet composition on VLDL-triacylglycerol metabolism using in vivo isotopically labeled VLDL-triacylglycerol tracers.
Design: Six healthy subjects were studied on 2 occasions: after 2 wk of an HC diet (75% carbohydrates, 10% fat, and 15% protein) and after 2 wk of an isoenergetic high-fat (HF) diet (30% carbohydrates, 55% fat, and 15% protein).
Results: The plasma VLDL-triacylglycerol concentration was higher after the HC diet than after the HF diet (690 ± 186 compared with 287 ± 104 µmol/L; P < 0.05) because of higher rates of VLDL-triacylglycerol production (0.76 ± 0.12 compared with 0.45 ± 0.15 µmol• kg-1•min-1; P < 0.05) rather than diminished VLDL-triacylglycerol clearance (1.5 ± 0.5 compared with 1.7 ± 0.5 mL•kg-1•min-1 after the HC diet than after the HF diet, respectively). The increase in VLDL-triacylglycerol production was probably mediated by a decrease in hepatic fatty acid oxidation after the HC diet (0.13 ± 0.02 compared with 0.69 ± 0.24 µmol•kg-1•min-1; P < 0.05), which presumably increased hepatic fatty acid availability for triacylglycerol synthesis.
Conclusions: The increase in fasting plasma triacylglycerol concentrations in response to short-term HC diets is due to accelerated VLDL-triacylglycerol secretion. Increased hepatic fatty acid availability, resulting from reduced hepatic fatty acid oxidation, is most likely responsible for the observed increase in VLDL-triacylglycerol secretion.
Key Words: Stable isotopes • fatty acid • liver • triacylglycerol • substrate oxidation • high-carbohydrate diet • high-fat diet
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