Abstract

VASQUEZ RENGIFO, Jesús Fernando; DIAZGRANADOS, Ismael Lizarazu; CEDENO ROCHA, Cielo María  and  MORA BANOS, Kevin. Effect of the consumption of diet sodas in plasmatic levels of glucose and insulin in young students at Universidad del Norte. Salud, Barranquilla [online]. 2016, vol.32, n.1, pp.25-34. ISSN 0120-5552.  https://doi.org/10.14482/sun.32.1.8597.

Objective: To determine the effect of diet sodas in glucose and insulin levels in young medical students from the Universidad del Norte. Materials and methods: A randomized experimental study with a sample of 16 female students with an average age of 18 years, belonging to the third semester of Medicine pro-gram at Universidad del Norte. The subject's participation was voluntary prior signature of informed consent. We assed the following anthropometric variables: weight, height, waist / hip ratio. Blood samples were obtainedfor determination of fasting glucose. We randomly divided the sample into two groups. The control group was provided a 600 cc of a regular soda, and the group experimental, an equal volume of diet soda. After 2 hours, new blood samples were taken in order to determine postprandial glucose and insulin levels. Data was collected and statistical analysis was performed using SPSS v22.0 software. Results: A statistically significant positive linear relationship between the levels of basal and postprandial insulin (r = 0.908; p = 0.002) and between pre and post-prandial HOMA index (r = 0.913;p = 0.002), HOMAR (r= 0,920;p=0,001), HOMA beta (r= 0,838;p=0,009), y OUICKI (r= 0,996; p=0,001) was found in the group receiving dietary drink. Conclusions: Data from this study show that the levels of glucose, insulin and HOMA index behave in lineal ways according to the type of soda consumed, however further studies are needed to determine the inter-relationship between these variables.

Keywords : soda; metabolic response; glucose; insulin; HOMA index.

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