Adipokines level and insulin resistance in abdominally obese patients with acute ischemic non-lacunar hemispheric stroke

Abstract

It has been examined serum concentrations of adiponectin, leptin and insulin resistance HOMA-IR index among patients with abdominal obesity II class and normal body weight patients in the acute phase of ischemic non-lacunar (atherothrombotic and cardioembolic) hemispheric strokes. There was absence of any significant difference in adipokines concentration and insulin resistance in normal body weight patients with acute stroke. Under the conditions of acute ischemic non-lacunar hemispheric stroke, patients with abdominal obesity II class have sustained reduction of adiponectin serum level at 1st and 10th day after stroke and transient elevation of leptin serum level, as well as HOMA-IR index at 1st day with subsequent return to basal values on the 10th day. The extents of these neuroendocrine changes in abdominally obese patients have a direct association with cerebral infarction volumes. These neuroendocrine peculiarities may be, at least partly, one reason of more severe stroke in abdominally obese patients.