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Absence of an Effect of Liposuction on Insulin Action and Risk Factors for Coronary Heart Disease
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Background Liposuction has been proposed as a potential treatment for the metabolic complications of obesity. We evaluated the effect of large-volume abdominal liposuction on metabolic risk factors for coronary heart disease in women with abdominal obesity. Methods We evaluated the insulin sensitivity of liver, skeletal muscle, and adipose tissue (with a euglycemic-hyperinsulinemic clamp procedure and isotope-tracer infusions) as well as levels of inflammatory mediators and other risk factors for coronary heart disease in 15 obese women before and 10 to 12 weeks after abdominal liposuction. Eight of the women had normal glucose tolerance (mean [+/-SD] body-mass index, 35.1+/-2.4), and seven had type 2 diabetes (body-mass index, 39.9+/-5.6). Results Liposuction decreased the volume of subcutaneous abdominal adipose tissue by 44 percent in the subjects with normal glucose tolerance and 28 percent in those with diabetes; those with normal oral glucose tolerance lost 9.1+/-3.7 kg of fat (18+/-3 percent decrease in total fat, P=0.002), and those with type 2 diabetes lost 10.5+/-3.3 kg of fat (19+/-2 percent decrease in total fat, P Conclusions Abdominal liposuction does not significantly improve obesity-associated metabolic abnormalities. Decreasing adipose tissue mass alone will not achieve the metabolic benefits of weight loss.
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“Even small amounts of weight loss induced by a negative energy balance affects many variables pertaining to body-fat composition and lipid metabolism -variables that probably contribute to the metabolic abnormalities associated with obesity.[22][23][24][25]”
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The Rapid communication Abstract describes a cross-sectional study of intramyocellular lipids and insulin sensitivity in normal-weight adults; the Discussion addresses their correlation. Searches for weight loss, negative energy balance, and energy restriction found no passage saying that small weight losses affect body-fat composition or lipid metabolism. Page numbers were not provided in our copy. (LLM, conf=0.77)
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“Weight loss decreases visceral fat mass, 26 intramyocellular fat, 27 intrahepatic fat, 28 fat-cell size, 29 and the rate of release of fatty acids from adipose tissue.30”
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The Results section (‘Effects of weight loss on body composition and liver enzymes’) reports that liver fat decreased significantly after weight loss in both the high- and low-liver-fat groups. The claim is supported for the obese women studied. (LLM, conf=0.95)
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“Even small amounts of weight loss induced by a negative energy balance affects many variables pertaining to body-fat composition and lipid metabolism -variables that probably contribute to the metabolic abnormalities associated with obesity.[22][23][24][25]”
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The introductory passage links obesity with skeletal-muscle insulin resistance and says lipids could play an important role in that resistance. The Discussion reports that intramyocellular lipid stores and circulating fatty acids are associated with insulin sensitivity, supporting the citing sentence’s hedged claim about lipid-related variables and metabolic abnormalities. (LLM, conf=0.86)
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“The measured truncal fat-free mass, which included tissue fluid, increased from 24.5±2.7 kg to 27.4±3.0kg (P<0.001) in the two groups overall.”
§ Absence of an Effect of Liposuction on Insulin Action and Risk Factors for Coronary Heart Disease > body composition
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“In addition, liposuction had no significant effects on other risk factors for coronary heart disease, including blood pressure; fasting plasma glucose, insulin, and lipid concentrations; and concentrations of plasma markers of inflammation and insulin resistance (C-reactive protein, tumor necrosis factor a , interleukin-6, and adiponectin).”
- Also stated in: § After Liposuction · plain
“in contrast, liposuction in our subjects did not significantly change the plasma concentrations of any of these markers.”
§ Absence of an Effect of Liposuction on Insulin Action and Risk Factors for Coronary Heart Disease > After Liposuction
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“Rates of appearance of glucose, glycerol, and free fatty acid and the rate of disappearance of glucose during basal conditions and during each stage of the clamp procedure were not significantly different before and after liposuction in either group (Fig. 2 and 3).”
§ Absence of an Effect of Liposuction on Insulin Action and Risk Factors for Coronary Heart Disease > substrate kinetics and insulin sensitivity
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“those with normal oral glucose tolerance lost 9.1±3.7 kg of fat (18±3 percent decrease in total fat, P=0.002)”
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“Ten to 12 weeks after surgery, the mass of body fat had decreased by 9.1±3.7 kg from baseline (18±3 percent of the total fat mass, P=0.002) in the subjects with normal oral glucose tolerance”
§ Absence of an Effect of Liposuction on Insulin Action and Risk Factors for Coronary Heart Disease > Abstract
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“Liposuction caused a decrease in waist circumference in both groups”
§ Absence of an Effect of Liposuction on Insulin Action and Risk Factors for Coronary Heart Disease > circulating inflammatory mediators and other risk factors for coronary heart disease
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“Liposuction decreased body weight and body-mass index (the weight in kilograms divided by the square of the height in meters) because of a marked decrease in body fat (Table 1).”
§ Absence of an Effect of Liposuction on Insulin Action and Risk Factors for Coronary Heart Disease > body composition
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“Liposuction also decreased plasma leptin concentrations in both groups”
§ Absence of an Effect of Liposuction on Insulin Action and Risk Factors for Coronary Heart Disease > circulating inflammatory mediators and other risk factors for coronary heart disease
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“Recent advances in liposuction techniques now make it possible to remove considerable amounts of subcutaneous adipose tissue.9”
§ Absence of an Effect of Liposuction on Insulin Action and Risk Factors for Coronary Heart Disease > Abstract
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The Objectives and Measurements sections discuss classifying and measuring facial wrinkles, not liposuction. Searches for liposuction, subcutaneous fat removal, and suction lipectomy found no passage addressing whether recent techniques permit removal of considerable amounts of adipose tissue. (LLM, conf=0.76)
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“Although both the abdominal subcutaneous fat mass and the visceral fat mass are associated with insulin resistance, 2”
§ Absence of an Effect of Liposuction on Insulin Action and Risk Factors for Coronary Heart Disease > Abstract
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The Abstract reports significant correlations between insulin-sensitivity measures and both subcutaneous abdominal and intraperitoneal fat mass in 39 healthy middle-aged men. The claim describes these as associations, without asserting that either fat compartment has an independent effect. (LLM, conf=0.93)
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“Insulin infusion during stage 1 caused the expected decreases in the rates of appearance of glucose, glycerol, and free fatty acids, and insulin infusion during stage 2 caused the expected increase in the rate of disappearance of glucose both in subjects with normal glucose tolerance and in those with type 2 diabetes (Fig. 2 and 3).”
§ Absence of an Effect of Liposuction on Insulin Action and Risk Factors for Coronary Heart Disease > substrate kinetics and insulin sensitivity
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“The decrease in measured fat mass was consistent with the amount of fat aspirated during liposuction; approximately 60 percent of the liposuction aspirate was composed of fat.”
§ Absence of an Effect of Liposuction on Insulin Action and Risk Factors for Coronary Heart Disease > body composition
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“Liposuction decreased the volume of subcutaneous abdominal adipose tissue by 44 percent in the subjects with normal glucose tolerance and 28 percent in those with diabetes”
- Also stated in: § body composition · plain
“Liposuction decreased the volume of subcutaneous abdominal adipose tissue by 44 percent in the subjects with normal glucose tolerance and 28 percent in those with diabetes, whereas the volumes of visceral adipose tissue and thigh adipose tissue did not change significantly (Fig. 1 and Table 1).”
§ Absence of an Effect of Liposuction on Insulin Action and Risk Factors for Coronary Heart Disease > Abstract
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“In the subjects with normal glucose tolerance, plasma insulin concentrations after liposuction were similar to those before liposuction for both stages 1 and 2 of the clamp procedure”
§ Absence of an Effect of Liposuction on Insulin Action and Risk Factors for Coronary Heart Disease > substrate kinetics and insulin sensitivity
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“did not significantly alter plasma concentrations of C-reactive protein, interleukin-6, tumor necrosis factor a , and adiponectin”
- Also stated in: § circulating inflammatory mediators and other risk factors for coronary heart disease · plain
“but it did not significantly alter the concentrations of other circulating cytokines or of C-reactive protein (Table 3).”
§ Absence of an Effect of Liposuction on Insulin Action and Risk Factors for Coronary Heart Disease > Abstract
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“whereas the volumes of visceral adipose tissue and thigh adipose tissue did not change significantly”
§ Absence of an Effect of Liposuction on Insulin Action and Risk Factors for Coronary Heart Disease > body composition
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“However, successful long-term weight management is difficult to achieve, and the majority of obese persons who lose weight by implementing lifestyle changes regain their lost weight over time.3”
§ Absence of an Effect of Liposuction on Insulin Action and Risk Factors for Coronary Heart Disease > Abstract
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“Therefore, abdominal liposuction provides a unique opportunity to evaluate the importance of subcutaneous abdominal fat in the pathogenesis of insulin resistance and in the risk of coronary heart disease in persons with abdominal obesity.”
§ Absence of an Effect of Liposuction on Insulin Action and Risk Factors for Coronary Heart Disease > Abstract
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- Rests on an assumption: It is not known whether one or both of the abdominal subcutaneous and visceral fat depots are actually involved in the pathogenesis of insulin resistance or whether they are simply associated with the metabolic complications of obesity.
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“In six of them, the medications were not changed after the clamp procedure; in one, rosiglitazone (4 mg per day) was stopped, and glipizide and metformin were continued.”
§ Absence of an Effect of Liposuction on Insulin Action and Risk Factors for Coronary Heart Disease > Evaluation after Liposuction
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“Weight stability was carefully maintained before and after liposuction to eliminate the confounding effects of changes in energy balance on the study end points.”
§ Absence of an Effect of Liposuction on Insulin Action and Risk Factors for Coronary Heart Disease > substrate kinetics and insulin sensitivity
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“The 10-to-12-week delay was intended to eliminate the confounding effects of postsurgical inflammation on our study end points.”
§ Absence of an Effect of Liposuction on Insulin Action and Risk Factors for Coronary Heart Disease > Evaluation after Liposuction
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“The decrease in body fat was greater than the total decrease in body weight, however, because of abdominal-tissue edema, which often persists for months after liposuction.16”
§ Absence of an Effect of Liposuction on Insulin Action and Risk Factors for Coronary Heart Disease > body composition
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“These insulin infusion rates result in plasma insulin concentrations that provide an optimal range for evaluating the effect of insulin on glucose production and lipolysis (stage 1) and on glucose disposal (stage 2).”
§ Absence of an Effect of Liposuction on Insulin Action and Risk Factors for Coronary Heart Disease > Euglycemic-Hyperinsulinemic Clamp Protocol
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“This amount of weight loss usually results in marked improvement in the metabolic abnormalities associated with obesity and improves insulin sensitivity, 18 blood pressure, 19 and concentrations of serum lipids 20 and circulating markers”
§ Absence of an Effect of Liposuction on Insulin Action and Risk Factors for Coronary Heart Disease > After Liposuction
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“All the subjects had had a stable weight (with fluctuations of not more than 2 percent of the body weight) for at least two months and had been sedentary (exercising for less than one hour per week) for at least six months before entering the study.”
§ Absence of an Effect of Liposuction on Insulin Action and Risk Factors for Coronary Heart Disease > subjects
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“The number of subjects to be enrolled was determined as the estimated number needed for the study to detect a statistically significant effect of liposuction on glucose kinetics with a power of at least 0.8, if the subjects had lost a similar amount of body fat by dieting.”
§ Absence of an Effect of Liposuction on Insulin Action and Risk Factors for Coronary Heart Disease > statistical analysis
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“Adipose tissue is now recognized as an important endocrine organ that produces several bioactive proteins, including interleukin-6, tumor necrosis factor a , and adiponectin.”
§ Absence of an Effect of Liposuction on Insulin Action and Risk Factors for Coronary Heart Disease > After Liposuction
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“Interleukin-6 and tumor necrosis factor a can cause insulin resistance and atherosclerosis by impairing insulin signaling, stimulating lipolysis and fatty acid release, increasing hepatic synthesis of C-reactive protein, and increasing systemic inflammation, [32][33][34]”
§ Absence of an Effect of Liposuction on Insulin Action and Risk Factors for Coronary Heart Disease > After Liposuction
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“In contrast, liposuction removes sub-cutaneous abdominal fat and reduces the total number of body fat cells, without altering visceral fat mass, 31 the size of the remaining fat cells, 10 intramyocellular fat, or intrahepatic fat.”
§ Absence of an Effect of Liposuction on Insulin Action and Risk Factors for Coronary Heart Disease > After Liposuction
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“In contrast, liposuction removes sub-cutaneous abdominal fat and reduces the total number of body fat cells, without altering visceral fat mass, 31 the size of the remaining fat cells, 10 intramyocellular fat, or intrahepatic fat.”
§ Absence of an Effect of Liposuction on Insulin Action and Risk Factors for Coronary Heart Disease > After Liposuction
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The paper relies on this without support.
It is not known whether one or both of the abdominal subcutaneous and visceral fat depots are actually involved in the pathogenesis of insulin resistance or whether they are simply associated with the metabolic complications of obesity.
“it is not known whether one or both of these fat depots are actually involved in the pathogenesis of insulin resistance or whether they are simply associated with the metabolic complications of obesity.”
The paper relies on this without support.
Diet-induced weight loss improves the metabolic complications of abdominal obesity.
“Diet-induced weight loss improves the metabolic complications of abdominal obesity.”
The paper relies on this without support.
Liposuction does not induce a negative energy balance.
“Our results suggest that induction of a negative energy balance, not simply a decrease in the mass of adipose tissue, is critical for achieving the metabolic benefits of weight loss.”
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“The data from the present study and our earlier study demonstrate that liposuction does not result in short-term or long-term improvement in most of the key metabolic risk factors for CHD.”
From Long-term Effects of Large-volume Liposuction on Metabolic Risk Factors for Coronary Heart Disease (2008) · cites this paper as [5]
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“Our data demonstrated that removal of large amounts of abdominal subcutaneous adipose tissue (SAT) (~10 kg) did not improve CHD risk factors or insulin sensitivity when subjects were evaluated ~10 weeks after the liposuction procedure was performed.”
From Long-term Effects of Large-volume Liposuction on Metabolic Risk Factors for Coronary Heart Disease (2008) · cites this paper as [5]
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“These long-term results are consistent with our findings obtained 10 weeks after large-volume liposuction (5) and make it unlikely that persistent postsurgical inflammation masked the metabolic benefits of liposuction that we reported previously.”
From Long-term Effects of Large-volume Liposuction on Metabolic Risk Factors for Coronary Heart Disease (2008) · cites this paper as [5]
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“These long-term results are consistent with our findings obtained 10 weeks after large-volume liposuction (5) and make it unlikely that persistent postsurgical inflammation masked the metabolic benefits of liposuction that we reported previously.”
From Long-term Effects of Large-volume Liposuction on Metabolic Risk Factors for Coronary Heart Disease (2008) · cites this paper as [5]
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“The removal of subcutaneous fat by liposuction does not appear to produce beneficial metabolic changes (182).”
From Cardiac remodeling in obesity (2008) · cites this paper as [182]
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Percentages, sums and reported differences re-computed from the paper’s own numbers.
Each contradiction between two passages listed here was confirmed by an independent check.
Glucose-tracer dose conversions disagree
MinorThe priming dose gives 22.5 μmol for 4.1 mg of the glucose tracer. At that same conversion, the stated 0.46 mg infusion rate corresponds to about 2.5 μmol, not 0.25 μmol, per minute per kilogram.
“priming dose, 4.1 mg per kilogram [22.5 µmol per kilogram]”
“0.46 mg per minute per kilogram [0.25 µmol per minute per kilogram]”
Post-liposuction insulin variability is misconverted
MinorThe paper specifies a factor of 6 for converting insulin from μU/ml to pmol/liter. An SD of 6 μU/ml therefore converts to 36 pmol/liter, not the reported 48.
Reported 48 · recomputed 36
“stage 1 and 2 values after liposuction, 42±5 and 89±6 µU per milliliter [252±30 and 534±48 pmol per liter], respectively”
Triglyceride estimate lies outside its confidence interval
MinorFor the normal-glucose-tolerance group, the reported triglyceride change is −30 mg/dl, but its stated 95% confidence interval runs only from −22 to +2 mg/dl.
“| Triglycerides (mg/dl) | 151±79 | 121±58 | -30”
“(-22 to +2) | 0.11”
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The elephant in the room: fatphobia & oppression in the time of obesity
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Metadata
- Authors
- Klein, S., Fontana, L., Young, V. L., Coggan, A. R., Kilo, C., Patterson, B. W., & Mohammed, B. S.
- Affiliations
- Washington University in St. Louis (US)
- Venue
- New England Journal of Medicine
- Publisher
- Massachusetts Medical Society
- Published
- 2004-06-17
- Volume
- 350
- Issue
- 25
- Pages
- 2549-2557
- ISSN
- 0028-4793 (ISSN-L)
- 1533-4406
- OpenAlex
- W1973382595
- Cited by
- 917
- References
- 43
- Citations by year
- 2026: 8 · 2025: 12 · 2024: 16 · 2023: 21 · 2022: 25 · 2021: 24 · 2020: 22 · 2019: 24 · 2018: 36 · 2017: 27 · 2016: 24 · 2015: 44 · 2014: 38 · 2013: 38 · 2012: 39
- FWCI
- 67.30
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- New England Journal of Medicine (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Institutional Research Information System (Università degli Studi di Brescia) (submittedVersion)
- INFM-OAR (INFN Catania) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
- Funders
- National Institutes of Health (5p41rr000954-34)
- National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (R01DK037948, P30DK056341)
- National Center for Research Resources (RR 00954, RR.00036)
- Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (K12HD001459)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Surgery › Body Contouring and Surgery
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Surgery › Bariatric Surgery and Outcomes
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism › Diabetes, Cardiovascular Risks, and Lipoproteins
- Keywords
- liposuction, abdominal obesity, insulin sensitivity, coronary risk factors, type 2 diabetes, adipose tissue, glucose disposal, lipolysis, inflammatory mediators, C-reactive protein, interleukin-6, TNF-α, adiponectin, weight loss
- MeSH terms
- Abdomen, Adipose Tissue, Adult, Blood Glucose, Body Composition, Body Constitution, Cholesterol, Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2, Female, Humans, Insulin, Insulin Resistance, Liver, Middle Aged, Obesity, Risk Factors, Triglycerides, Lipectomy, Glucose Clamp Technique, Weight Loss, Body Mass Index, Muscle, Skeletal, Inflammation Mediators
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