Hananeh Taghizadeh, Solaleh Emamgholipour, Shaghayegh Hosseinkhani, Babak Arjmand, Negar Rezaei, Arezou Dilmaghani-Marand, Erfan Ghasemi, Nekoo Panahi, Hojat Dehghanbanadaki, Robabeh Ghodssi-Ghassemabadi, Niloufar Najjar, Mojgan Asadi, Mohsen Khoshniat, Bagher Larijani, Farideh Razi
BACKGROUND: Evidence, albeit with conflicting results, has suggested that cardiometabolic risk factors, including obesity, type 2 diabetes (T2D), dyslipidemia, and hypertension, are highly associated with changes in metabolic signature, especially plasma amino acids and acylcarnitines levels. Here, we aimed to evaluate the association of circulating levels of amino acids and acylcarnitines with metabolic syndrome (MetS) and its components in Iranian adults. METHODS: This cross-sectional study was performed on 1192 participants from the large-scale cross-sectional study of Surveillance of Risk Factors of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in Iran (STEP 2016)...
2023: Frontiers in Endocrinology