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Metabolic impact of a family history of Type 2 diabetes. Results from a European multicentre study (EGIR)
- Source :
- Diabetic Medicine. 18:533-540
- Publication Year :
- 2001
- Publisher :
- Wiley, 2001.
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Abstract
- BACKGROUND: Insulin resistance was found in some but not in all previous studies of non-diabetic first degree relatives of Type 2 diabetic patients. Small study groups, ethnic differences and/or non-optimal techniques may explain the conflicting results. AIM: To study the impact of a family history of Type 2 diabetes on insulin action in a large group of non-diabetic Europeans using the 'gold standard' euglycaemic hyperinsulinaemic clamp technique. METHODS: Non-diabetic subjects (n = 235) with a positive family history of Type 2 diabetes (FH+) and 564 subjects with no family history of diabetes (FH-) were recruited from The European Group of Insulin Resistance (EGIR) database. This database includes measurements of insulin action using the insulin clamp technique (1 mU/kg per min) in normal glucose-tolerant individuals from 20 different European centres. In a subset of subjects the measurements were performed in combination with indirect calorimetry (n = 80 vs. 213 with and without family history of Type 2 diabetes). RESULTS: The body mass index (BMI) was slightly higher in FH+ compared with FH- (26.7 +/- 4.6 vs. 25.1 +/- 4.7 kg/m(2); P < 0.02). After correction for covariates according to differences between investigators and subject characteristics including BMI (multiple regression analysis), insulin-stimulated glucose disposal was lower in FH+ compared with FH- (P < 0.00001). Insulin-stimulated glucose oxidation was slightly increased in FH+ compared with FH-, and insulin-stimulated non-oxidative glucose metabolism was consequently markedly reduced in FH+ compared with FH- (P < 0.0005). CONCLUSION: Insulin resistance is present in European non-diabetic relatives of Type 2 diabetic patients. The insulin resistance is independent of degree of obesity and is restricted solely to the pathway of non-oxidative glucose metabolism. (Less)
- Subjects :
- medicine.medical_specialty
Glucose tolerance test
medicine.diagnostic_test
business.industry
Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism
Insulin
medicine.medical_treatment
Type 2 diabetes
Glucose clamp technique
medicine.disease
Endocrinology
Insulin resistance
Lipid oxidation
Diabetes mellitus
Internal medicine
Internal Medicine
medicine
First-degree relatives
business
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 07423071
- Volume :
- 18
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Diabetic Medicine
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........061f2d61c0ffdc7e5c5d71620e027625