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Response: Premeal Consumption of a Protein-Enriched, Dietary Fiber-Fortified Bar Decreases Total Energy Intake in Healthy Individuals (Diabetes Metab J 2019;43:879–92)
Chang Ho Ahn1, Jae Hyun Bae2, Young Min Cho1orcid
Diabetes & Metabolism Journal 2020;44(1):207-208.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.4093/dmj.2020.0026
Published online: February 21, 2020
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1Department of Internal Medicine, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea.

2Department of Internal Medicine, Korea University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea.

Corresponding author: Young Min Cho. Department of Internal Medicine, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul National University College of Medicine, 101 Daehak-ro, Jongno-gu, Seoul 03080, Korea. ymchomd@snu.ac.kr

Copyright © 2020 Korean Diabetes Association

This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

See the Original "Premeal Consumption of a Protein-Enriched, Dietary Fiber-Fortified Bar Decreases Total Energy Intake in Healthy Individuals" on page 879.
We thank Professor Mi-kyung Kim for her careful comments on our article [1]. We agree that premeal supplement can have sex-specific effects or, at least, differ in the degree of effects according to sex. Previous studies suggested that nutrient preload can have differential effects between male and female, which is attributed to the differences in a compensatory response, gastric emptying, and gut hormones [23]. We reviewed our study results and compared the effects of protein-enriched, dietary fiber-fortified bar (PFB) between male and female subjects. There were 14 male and six female subjects in our study. To compare the effects of PFB, we calculated the changes in various measurements after premeal PFB intake compared to water intake in each subject. Then, we compared these changes between male and female subjects. The effects of PFB on food intake, appetite, and fullness were similar between male and female. PFB decreased total energy intake numerically more in female than male (Δfood intake: −241.9± 235.1 kcal vs. −140.0±253.8 kcal, P=0.412) (Fig. 1), but the difference was not statistically significant. PFB also decreased postprandial glucose and increased postprandial glucagon-like peptide-1 levels similarly in both sexes. The effects of PFB on postprandial peptide YY (PYY) and active ghrelin showed a different trend between male and female, but this trend was not statistically significant. PFB increased postprandial PYY in male, while it was decreased in female (Δincremental area under the curve (iAUC) of PYY: 503.4±2,082.4 pg/mL×min vs. −257.5±2,359.5 pg/mL×min, P=0.480). Postprandial active ghrelin was decreased by PFB in male but increased in female (ΔiAUC of active ghrelin: −652.1±1,353.9 pg/mL×min vs. 854.3± 2,135.6 pg/mL×min, P=0.071). However, the responses of PYY and active ghrelin to premeal PFB were highly variable among subjects and the results had high standard deviations. Our study was not powered to compare the difference between male and female subjects and had unbalanced number of subjects in each sex. Although our study results showed similar effects of PFB on food intake and postprandial glucose in both sexes, further study with enough statistical power is needed to study the sex-specific effects of premeal PFB intake.

CONFLICTS OF INTEREST: No potential conflict of interest relevant to this article was reported.

  • 1. Ahn CH, Bae JH, Cho YM. Premeal consumption of a protein-enriched, dietary fiber-fortified bar decreases total energy intake in healthy individuals. Diabetes Metab J 2019;43:879-892. ArticlePubMedPMCPDF
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Total energy intake for 120 minutes in male and female subjects. UB, usual bar; PFB, protein-enriched, dietary fiber-fortified bar.

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