PMID- 31024458 OWN - NLM STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE LR - 20200225 IS - 1664-2392 (Print) IS - 1664-2392 (Electronic) IS - 1664-2392 (Linking) VI - 10 DP - 2019 TI - Gene Lifestyle Interactions With Relation to Obesity, Cardiometabolic, and Cardiovascular Traits Among South Asians. PG - 221 LID - 10.3389/fendo.2019.00221 [doi] LID - 221 AB - The rapid rise of obesity, type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) and cardiovascular disease (CVD) during the last few decades among South Asians has been largely attributed to a major shift in lifestyles including physical inactivity, unhealthy dietary patterns, and an overall pattern of sedentary lifestyle. Genetic predisposition to these cardiometabolic risk factors may have interacted with these obesogenic environments in determining the higher cardiometabolic disease prevalence. Based on the premise that gene-environment interactions cause obesity and cardiometabolic diseases, we systematically searched the literature and considered the knowledge gaps that future studies might fulfill. We identified only seven published studies that focused specifically on gene-environment interactions for cardiometabolic traits in South Asians, most of which were limited by relatively small sample and lack of replication. Some studies reported that the differences in metabolic response to higher physical activity and low caloric diet might be modified by genetic risk related to these cardiometabolic traits. Although studies on gene lifestyle interactions in cardiometabolic traits report significant interactions, future studies must focus on more precise assessment of lifestyle factors, investigation of a larger set of genetic variants and the application of powerful statistical methods to facilitate translatable approaches. Future studies should also be integrated with findings both using mechanistic studies through laboratory settings and randomized clinical trials for clinical outcomes. FAU - Ahmad, Shafqat AU - Ahmad S AD - Department of Medical Sciences, Molecular Epidemiology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden. AD - Preventive Medicine Division, Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, United States. AD - Department of Nutrition, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, United States. FAU - Fatima, Syeda Sadia AU - Fatima SS AD - Department of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan. FAU - Rukh, Gull AU - Rukh G AD - Department of Neuroscience, Functional Pharmacology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden. FAU - Smith, Caren E AU - Smith CE AD - Nutrition and Genomics Laboratory, Jean Mayer U. S. Department of Agriculture Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging, Tufts University, Boston, MA, United States. LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Review DEP - 20190409 PL - Switzerland TA - Front Endocrinol (Lausanne) JT - Frontiers in endocrinology JID - 101555782 PMC - PMC6465946 OTO - NOTNLM OT - South Asians OT - cardiometabolic traits OT - cardiovasclar disease OT - gene environment interaction OT - obesity EDAT- 2019/04/27 06:00 MHDA- 2019/04/27 06:01 PMCR- 2019/01/01 CRDT- 2019/04/27 06:00 PHST- 2018/11/03 00:00 [received] PHST- 2019/03/20 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2019/04/27 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2019/04/27 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2019/04/27 06:01 [medline] PHST- 2019/01/01 00:00 [pmc-release] AID - 10.3389/fendo.2019.00221 [doi] PST - epublish SO - Front Endocrinol (Lausanne). 2019 Apr 9;10:221. doi: 10.3389/fendo.2019.00221. eCollection 2019.