Dietary Glycemic Index, Glycemic Load, Fiber, Simple Sugars, and Insulin Resistance: The Inter99 Study
Response to Buyken and Liese
- Cathrine Lau, MSC1,
- Kristine Færch, MSC1,
- Charlotte Glümer, MD, PHD12,
- Inge Tetens, MSC, PHD3,
- Oluf Pedersen, MD, DMSC14,
- Bendix Carstensen, MSC1,
- Torben Jørgensen, MD, DMSC3 and
- Knut Borch-Johnsen, MD, DMSC1
- 1Steno Diabetes Center, Gentofte, Denmark
- 2Research Centre for Prevention and Health, Glostrup, Denmark
- 3Department of Nutrition, The Danish Institute for Food and Veterinary Research, Søborg, Denmark
- 4Faculty of Health, University of Aarhus, Aarhus, Denmark
- Address correspondence to Cathrine Lau, MSC, Steno Diabetes Center, Niels Steensens Vej 2, DK-2820 Gentofte, Denmark. E-mail: cala{at}steno.dk
Buyken and Liese (1) raised the relevant question of whether low variability in glycemic index and glycemic load could explain the lack of association with insulin resistance (2). The complete ranges (medians) of glycemic index and glycemic load in our study are 16–105 (79) and 0–1,208 (197), respectively. This is in accordance with previous studies (3), and thus, it is unlikely that this explains the lack of association.
We disagree that our article should have provided data on …
