Prediction of future risk of insulin resistance and metabolic syndrome based on Korean boy's metabolite profiling

Summary Objective: Childhood obesity is strongly related to future insulin resistance and metabolic syndrome. Thus, identifying early biomarkers of obesity-related diseases based on metabolic profiling is useful to control future metabolic disorders. We compared metabolic profiles between obese and normal-weight children and investigated specific biomarkers of future insulin resistance and metabolic syndrome. Methods: In all, 186 plasma metabolites were analysed at baseline and after 2 years in 109 Korean boys (age 10.5 ± 0.4 years) from the Korean Child Obesity Cohort Study using the AbsoluteIDQ TM p180 Kit.