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Sex differences in abdominal, gluteal, and thigh LPL activity

Endocrine Research Unit, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota

Submitted 10 November 2006 ; accepted in final form 19 February 2007

Lipoprotein lipase (LPL) activity is necessary for adipocytes to take up triglycerides from the circulation, and regional differences in LPL activity could help determine regional fat storage. LPL activity has been reported to increase as a function of fat cell size, but this issue has not been extensively evaluated in different depots comparing sexes. Our objective was to determine whether sex alters the relationship between LPL activity and fat cell size. Subcutaneous adipose tissue biopsies were taken from the abdomen and thigh after an overnight fast and 1 h after a meal in 65 females (BMI 25.4 ± 0.8, means ± SE) and 41 males (BMI 23.7 ± 0.3); gluteal adipose samples were obtained in 47 of the females and 27 of the males. Fat cell size was greater in females than males in thigh (P < 0.005) and gluteal (P < 0.05) regions but not in the abdomen. There was a relationship between fasting LPL activity/fat cell and fat cell size in females (abdomen r² = 0.52, P < 0.0001; gluteal r² = 0.23, P < 0.005; thigh r² = 0.19, P < 0.005). In males, this relationship was seen only in the abdomen (r² = 0.51, P < 0.0001) and thigh (r² = 0.17, P < 0.05). Males and females had a significantly different relationship in the thigh only in the fasted state. Similar results were found in the fed state, although the strength of the relationship decreased in the abdominal regions for females only. This suggests fundamental differences in the regulation of triglyceride uptake between males and females and adipose regions.

lipoprotein lipase; body fat distribution; postprandial; adipose tissue biopsies

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