Body Composition but not Cardiorespiratory Fitness Correlate with Adipokines in Overweight-Obese Adults

Propose: To correlate parameters regards to body composition, cardiorespiratory fitness and adipokines in overweight-obese adults. Methods: A cross-sectional study of subjects with overweight-obese (n=30) was conducted. Anthropometric data, peak oxygen consumption, levels of serum leptin, adiponectin, ghrelin, insulin and glucose were assessed. Insulin resistance was defined by the index HOMA-IR and a ratio adiponectin/leptin was calculated. Results: No correlations between cardiorespiratory fitness were observed which hormones or adipokines. However, when correlated anthropometric parameters, we observed a significant correlation between leptin and hip circumference (r=0.459; p=0.021), leptin and fat mass (%) (r=0.705; p=0.001) an inverse correlation between ghrelin and ratio w/h (r=-0.518; p=0.007) and ratio adiponectin/leptin which fat mass (r= -0.701; p=0.001). Conclusion: In obese individuals, body composition parameters but not functional capacity, was correlated with elevated levels of adipokines.