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Departments of 1 Surgery and of 3 Anesthesia, Karolinska Hospital, S 171 76 Stockholm; 2 Centre of Gastrointestinal Disease, Karolinska Institutet at Ersta Hospital, S-116 91 Stockholm; and the 4 Department of Surgery, Karolinska Institutet at Huddinge University Hospital, S-141 86 Stockholm, Sweden
Postoperative insulin resistance is a well-characterized metabolic state that has been shown to correlate with the length of postoperative stay in hospital. Preoperative intravenous or oral carbohydrate treatment has been shown to attenuate the development of postoperative insulin resistance measured 1 day after surgery. To study the effects of preoperative oral carbohydrate treatment on postoperative changes in insulin resistance and substrate utilization, in the absence of postoperative confounding factors, 15 patients were double-blindly treated with either a carbohydrate-rich beverage (12.5%) (n = 8) or placebo (n = 7) before undergoing total hip replacement surgery. Insulin sensitivity, endogenous glucose release, and substrate oxidation rates were measured before and immediately after surgery. Whole body insulin sensitivity decreased by 18% in the treatment group vs. 43% in the placebo group (P < 0.05, Student's t-test for unpaired data). In both groups, the major mechanism of insulin resistance was an inhibition of insulin-induced nonoxidative glucose disposal after surgery. The better preservation of insulin sensitivity in the treatment group was attributable to a less reduced glucose disposal in peripheral tissues and increased glucose oxidation rates.
surgery; glucose metabolism; glucose clamp technique; stable isotopes
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