Table 7

Correlations between blood glucose, serum insulin, plasma ghrelin and subjective satiety responses following the test meals

GP

II

Insulin

Incremental peak

GI

Hypoglycaemia

neg AUC (30-180 min)

Subjective satiety

180 min

(delta from fasting)

NS

NS

NS

NS

-0.28*

Ghrelin

relative increase

(0 to180 min)

-0.40 ***

0.33 **

0.34 **

NS

0.26*

Hypoglycaemia

neg AUC ¹

(30-180 min)

-0.43 ***

0.22 *

0.38 ***

-0.39 ***

GI

NS

0.35 **

NS

Insulin

incremental peak

-0.64 ***

0.72 ***

II

-0.48 ***

* p < 0.05, ** p < 0.01, *** p < 0.001, NS = non significant. (Spearman's partial coefficients controlling for subjects (two-tailed test)).

Rosén et al. Nutrition Journal 2009 8:42   doi:10.1186/1475-2891-8-42