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Human postprandial responses to food and potential for precision nutrition

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Berry, Sarah E., Valdes, Ana M., Drew, David A., Asnicar, Francesco, Mazidi, Mohsen, Wolf, Jonathan, Capdevila, Joan, Hadjigeorgiou, George +17 more·2020·Nature Medicine

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Metabolic responses to food influence risk of cardiometabolic disease, but large-scale high-resolution studies are lacking. We recruited n = 1,002 twins and unrelated healthy adults in the United Kingdom to the PREDICT 1 study and assessed postprandial metabolic responses in a clinical setting and at home. We observed large inter-individual variability (as measured by the population coefficient of variation (s.d./mean, %)) in postprandial responses of blood triglyceride (103%), glucose (68%) and insulin (59%) following identical meals. Person-specific factors, such as gut microbiome, had a greater influence (7.1% of variance) than did meal macronutrients (3.6%) for postprandial lipemia, but not for postprandial glycemia (6.0% and 15.4%, respectively); genetic variants had a modest impact on predictions (9.5% for glucose, 0.8% for triglyceride, 0.2% for C-peptide). Findings were independently validated in a US cohort (n = 100 people). We developed a machine-learning model that predicted both triglyceride (r = 0.47) and glycemic (r = 0.77) responses to food intake. These findings may be informative for developing personalized diet strategies. The ClinicalTrials.gov registration identifier is NCT03479866.

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Berry, S. E., Valdes, A. M., Drew, D. A., Asnicar, F., Mazidi, M., Wolf, J., Capdevila, J., Hadjigeorgiou, G., Davies, R., Al Khatib, H., Bonnett, C., Ganesh, S., Bakker, E., Hart, D., Mangino, M., Merino, J., Linenberg, I., Wyatt, P., Ordovas, J. M., Gardner, C. D., Delahanty, L. M., Chan, A. T., Segata, N., Franks, P. W., & Spector, T. D.
Affiliations
  • King's College London (GB)
  • University of Nottingham (GB)
  • Harvard University (US)
  • University of Trento (IT)
  • ZOE (United Kingdom) (GB)
  • Broad Institute (US)
  • Stanford University (US)
Corresponding author
  • Valdes, Ana M.
  • Spector, Tim D.
Venue
Nature Medicine
Published
2020-06-01
Volume
26
Issue
6
Pages
964-973
ISSN
  • 1078-8956 (ISSN-L)
  • 1546-170X
OpenAlex
W3035408224
Cited by
932
References
66
Citations by year
2026: 213 · 2025: 159 · 2024: 142 · 2023: 134 · 2022: 159 · 2021: 98 · 2020: 23 · 2019: 1
FWCI
60.98
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Nature Medicine (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
  • Repository@Nottingham (University of Nottingham) (acceptedVersion, other-oa)
  • Repository@Nottingham (University of Nottingham) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
  • Institutional Research Information System (Università degli Studi di Trento) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
  • Research Portal (King's College London) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
  • Lund University Publications (Lund University) (submittedVersion)
Funders
  • Massachusetts General Hospital
  • Wellcome Trust (212904, 212904/Z/18/Z, MR/M016560/1, 212904/Z/18/)
  • National Institute for Health and Care Research (MR/M016560/1)
  • British Heart Foundation (MR/M016560/1, SP/14/8/31352)
  • King's College London
  • University of Oxford
  • European Commission (CoG-2015_681742_NASCENT, MR/M016560/1, 212904/Z/18/Z)
  • Stiftelsen för Strategisk Forskning (CoG-2015_681742_NASCENT)
  • Novo Nordisk
  • Vetenskapsrådet (CoG-2015_681742_NASCENT)
  • National Institutes of Health (UL1TR002541, 1u01ca230551-01a1)
  • Medical Research Council (MR/M016560/1, 212904/Z/18/Z, MR/N01183X/1)
  • Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BB/NO12739/1)
  • NIHR Nottingham Biomedical Research Centre
  • National Cancer Institute (U01 CA230551, R01CA230551)
  • National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Genetics › Nutrition, Genetics, and Disease
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism › Diet, Metabolism, and Disease
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Gut microbiota and health
Keywords
personalized nutrition, postprandial lipemia, postprandial blood glucose, blood triglycerides, insulin, gut microbiota, interindividual variability, genetic variants, machine learning prediction models, personalized diet, cardiometabolic risk
MeSH terms
Gastrointestinal Microbiome, Machine Learning, Nutrients, Adolescent, Adult, Aged, Blood Glucose, C-Peptide, Dietary Carbohydrates, Dietary Fats, Dietary Fiber, Dietary Proteins, Female, Glucose Tolerance Test, Humans, Individuality, Insulin, Male, Middle Aged, Triglycerides, Genetic Variation, Postprandial Period, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Young Adult, Precision Medicine, Healthy Volunteers

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