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  • 1
    ISSN: 1432-0428
    Keywords: Keywords Non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus ; micro-macroalbuminuria ; familial clustering ; sib pair analysis ; diabetic retinopathy.
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: Summary Proteinuria and nephropathy have been found to cluster in families of non-insulin-dependent diabetic (NIDDM) Pima Indian, and in Caucasian insulin-dependent diabetic (IDDM) patients. No information is at present available for Caucasian NIDDM patients. The aim of the present study was to determine whether micro-macroalbuminuria (AER + ) is associated with albumin excretion rate abnormalities in diabetic and non-diabetic siblings of probands with NIDDM and AER + . We identified 169 Caucasian families with one NIDDM proband (the patient with longest known NIDDM duration) (101 families with only NIDDM siblings, 33 families with both NIDDM and non-NIDDM siblings and 35 families with only non-NIDDM siblings). Of the probands 56 had AER + [Prob-NIDDM-(AER + )], 78 had AER– [Prob-NIDDM-(AER–)], 74 siblings of Prob-NIDDM-(AER + ), and 113 siblings of Prob-NIDDM-(AER–) also had NIDDM. Data on albuminuria and retinopathy from multiple sibling pairs when the size of the sibship was more than two was adjusted according to a weighting factor. The odds ratio for AER + , in siblings of Prob-NIDDM-(AER + ) adjusted for age, hypertension, glycated haemoglobin A1 c and other confounding variables was 3.94 (95 % confidence intervals: 1.93–9.01) as compared to siblings of Prob-NIDDM-(AER–). The 74 siblings of Prob-NIDDM-(AER + ) had higher prevalence of proliferative retinopathy than siblings of Prob-NIDDM-(AER–) (14 vs 2 %; p 〈 0.01). We also identified 66 non-diabetic siblings of 41 NIDDM probands with AER + and 36 non-diabetic siblings of 27 NIDDM probands with AER–. Albumin excretion was two times higher, although still within the normal range, in the non-diabetic siblings of Prob-NIDDM-(AER + ) than in siblings of Prob-NIDDM-(AER–) [median = 13.5 (range 0.5–148) vs 6.6 (range 1–17) μg/min (p 〈 0.05)]. In conclusion higher rates of albumin excretion aggregate in Caucasian families with NIDDM. Proliferative retinopathy is more frequently observed in families showing a clustering of AER + and NIDDM. These findings suggest that familial factors play a role in the pathogenesis of renal and retinal complications in NIDDM. [Diabetologia (1997) 40: 816–823]
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  • 2
    ISSN: 1432-5233
    Keywords: Hypertension ; Non-insulin-dependent diabetes ; Microalbuminuria ; Lisinopril ; Nifedipine
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: Abstract The effects of the angiotensin-converting enzyme lisinopril were compared with those of the calcium antagonist nifedipine in 162 non-insulin-dependent diabetic hypertensive patients for a 24-week period. In 83 and 79 patients, respectively, lisinopril and slow-release nifedipine produced similar reductions in blood pressure (systolic/diastolic: −16/−13 mmHg supine and −14/−11 mmHg standing after lisinopril; −15/−12 mmHg supine and −14/−11 mmHg standing after nifedipine). Fasting and post-prandial plasma glucose, glycosylated haemoglobin and plasma lipids appeared to be unaffected by either agent. Also, 28% of the patients on lisinopril and 30% of those on nifedipine presented microalbuminuria. Both drugs induced a reduction in the albumin excretion rate (AER). The geometric meanxx: tolerance factor of the reduction in AER among the 23 microalbuminuric patients on lisinopril (−10.0xx:1.3 μg/min) was greater, though not significantly so, than that observed in the 26 on nifedipine (−0.9x:1.2 μg/min). Moreover, lisinopril appeared to be better tolerated than nifedipine in our study population. Microalbuminuria is an important risk factor for cardiovascular mortality in non-insulin-dependent diabetic patients as well as in the general population. To what extent a reduction in the AER could ameliorate the cardiovascular prognosis in non-insulin-dependent diabetic patients is, at present, unknown. Finally, both lisinopril and nifedipine showed a similar antihypertensive effect in these patients which was not associated with significant differences in plasma glucose, insulin or lipid concentrations. The clinical consequences of the insignificant differences in AER remain unclear.
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