ArticleMetabolism: clinical and experimental2014
Effects of a eucaloric reduced-carbohydrate diet on body composition and fat distribution in women with PCOS.
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Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
A Comparison of a Pulse-Based Diet and the Therapeutic Lifestyle Changes Diet on Reproductive and Metabolic Parameters in Women with Polycystic Ovary Syndrome
The Effect and Mechanism Of Weight Cycling on Hyperandrogenemia And Insulin Resistance in Polycystic Ovary Syndrome
Who cites it
42 citing papers in PubMed, 6 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Optimizing carbohydrate quality: a path to better health for women with PCOS.Frontiers in nutrition · 2025Pooled it
- The effect of ketogenic diet on adipokines levels: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized-controlled trials.Acta diabetologica · 2024Pooled it
- Effects of Dietary Glycemic Index and Glycemic Load on Cardiometabolic and Reproductive Profiles in Women with Polycystic Ovary Syndrome: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials.Advances in nutrition (Bethesda, Md.) · 2021Pooled it
- Pathophysiology of Type 2 Diabetes in Children and Adolescents.Current diabetes reviews · 2020Pooled it
- Lifestyle changes in women with polycystic ovary syndrome.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2019Pooled it
- Conceptual Model of Lean Body Mass in Pediatric Inflammatory Bowel Disease.Journal of pediatric gastroenterology and nutrition · 2019Pooled it
- Effects of a Carbohydrate-Restricted Diet on β-Cell Response in Adults With Type 2 Diabetes.The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism · 2025Trial
- French-fried potato consumption and energy balance: a randomized controlled trial.The American journal of clinical nutrition · 2022Trial
- Weight Reduction Through a Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Lifestyle Intervention in PCOS: The Primary Outcome of a Randomized Controlled Trial.Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.) · 2020Trial
- A Ketogenic Diet Reduces Central Obesity and Serum Insulin in Women with Ovarian or Endometrial Cancer.The Journal of nutrition · 2018Trial
- Effect of meal frequency on glucose and insulin levels in women with polycystic ovary syndrome: a randomised trial.European journal of clinical nutrition · 2016Trial
- Myosteatosis and Dyslipidemia: Linking Muscle Quality to Cardiometabolic Risk.Journal of lipid and atherosclerosis · 2026Review
- The Interplay Between PMOS and MASLD: Pathophysiology and Evidence-Based Nutritional Interventions.Nutrients · 2026Review
- Effects of a Reprometabolic Syndrome-Inducing Eucaloric High-Fat Diet on Insulin Sensitivity, Body Composition, the Lipidome, and the Microbiome.Metabolites · 2026Article
- Causal Association between Arm Fat, Left Leg Fat, and Trunk Fat Masses and Risk of Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome: A Mendelian Randomization Study.Combinatorial chemistry & high throughput screening · 2026Article
- Nutritional and herbal interventions for polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS): a comprehensive review of dietary approaches, macronutrient impact, and herbal medicine in management.Journal of health, population, and nutrition · 2025Review
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- Fibro-adipogenic progenitors in physiological adipogenesis and intermuscular adipose tissue remodeling.Molecular aspects of medicine · 2024Review
- The impact of ketogenic diet on some metabolic and non-metabolic diseases: Evidence from human and animal model experiments.Food science & nutrition · 2024Review
- Association of daily carbohydrate intake with intermuscular adipose tissue in Korean individuals with obesity: a cross-sectional study.Nutrition research and practice · 2024Article
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Abstract
objectiveTo determine if consumption of a reduced-carbohydrate (CHO) diet would result in preferential loss of adipose tissue under eucaloric conditions, and whether changes in adiposity were associated with changes in postprandial insulin concentration.
methodsIn a crossover-diet intervention, 30 women with PCOS consumed a reduced-CHO diet (41:19:40% energy from CHO:protein:fat) for 8 weeks and a standard diet (55:18:27) for 8 weeks. Body composition by DXA and fat distribution by CT were assessed at baseline and following each diet phase. Insulin AUC was obtained from a solid meal test (SMT) during each diet phase.
resultsParticipants lost 3.7% and 2.2% total fat following the reduced-CHO diet and STD diet, resp. (p<0.05 for difference between diets). The reduced-CHO diet induced a decrease in subcutaneous-abdominal, intra-abdominal, and thigh-intermuscular adipose tissue (-7.1%, -4.6%, and -11.5%, resp.), and the STD diet induced a decrease in total lean mass. Loss of fat mass following the reduced CHO diet arm was associated with lower insulin AUC (p<0.05) during the SMT.
conclusionsIn women with PCOS, consumption of a diet lower in CHO resulted in preferential loss of fat mass from metabolically harmful adipose depots, whereas a diet high in CHO appeared to promote repartitioning of lean mass to fat mass.
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