The investigators will conduct an open label, experimental medicine study exploring the diurnal patterns of hepatic lipid metabolism in NAFLD and non-NAFLD participants (determined by Transient elastography (TE) with controlled attenuation parameter (CAP)). We will also determine whether the diurnal patterns of lipid metabolism in NAFLD participants can be modified using lifestyle and weight loss intervention. Fourteen participants without NAFLD will have morning and evening metabolic investigations (visit 1M \& 1E) to assess for changes in lipid flux pathways across the course of the day. After morning and evening investigations their involvement in the clinical study will then end. Seventeen NAFLD participants will also have identical baseline morning and evening investigation after which they will be enrolled into a 12-week lifestyle and weight loss programme. After 12-weeks, all 17 participants with NAFLD will have a follow up CAP, and morning and evening metabolic investigations (visit 2M \& 2E).
Study Type
OBSERVATIONAL
Enrollment
31
Commercially available lifestyle and weight loss intervention
University of Oxford
Oxford, United Kingdom
RECRUITINGChange in hepatic fatty acid synthesis as measured by incorporation of 2H2 palmitate from 2H2O into very low density lipoprotein triglyceride (VLDL-TG) between morning and evening
Time frame: 12 hours
Difference in morning and evening glucose production and disposal (of a labelled stable isotope tracer) during a two-step hyperinsulinaemic-euglycaemic clamp
Time frame: 12 hours
Difference in morning and evening glucose oxidation measured by incorporation of 13C in breath CO2 across a 2-step hyperinsulinemia euglycaemic clamp
Time frame: 12 hours
Changes in diurnal patterns of hepatic fatty acid synthesis after weight loss programme (measured by incorporation of 2H2 palmitate from 2H2O into very low density lipoprotein triglyceride (VLDL-TG)
Time frame: 12 weeks
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