Age and glucose tolerance in healthy subjects

Aging : Clinical and Experimental Research
F BeccaroG Crepaldi

Abstract

An important and still controversial issue is the role played by the aging process itself in the metabolic alterations observed in aged people. We previously reported that a group of normal elderly people exhibited glucose disposal comparable to that of young controls. In the present study we investigated the effect of age on beta-cell secretion, by analyzing C-peptide measurements. Ten elderly men (E, 70 +/- 2 years) with normal oral glucose test and ten young subjects (Y, 27 +/- 1 years) with matching ideal body weight formed the study group. They were studied under highly dynamic conditions by means of a 0.3 g/kg i.v. glucose tolerance test. Fasting glucose and insulin were not different in the two groups (Y: 87 +/- 2 mg/di, E: 88 +/- 3, p greater than 0.1; Y: 50 +/- 7 pM, E: 36 +/- 7, p greater than 0.05). Glucose-insulin data set was analyzed by means of the minimal model of glucose disappearance which provided two parameters for every individual, yielding a quantitative description of glucose utilization: i.e., SI, the index of insulin sensitivity, and SG, the fractional glucose disappearance at basal insulin (glucose effectiveness). Both parameters were unaltered by age (SI = Y: 6.30 +/- 0.41 10(-4)min-1/(microU/ml), E: ...Continue Reading

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