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  • 1
    ISSN: 1432-0428
    Keywords: Type2 (non-insulin-dependent) diabetes mellitus sulfonylurea ; metformin ; insulin ; secondary drug failure ; energy
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: Summary Which therapy should be used in Type 2 (noninsulin-dependent) diabetic patients with “secondary sulfonylurea failure”, insulin or a combination of sulfonylurea and metformin? To address this question, we have compared the effect of 6 months of insulin therapy twice daily with that of a combination of glibenclamide and metformin in 24 Type 2 diabetic subjects, who no longer responded to treatment with sulfonylureas. Both treatments resulted in an equivalent 30% improvement in mean daily blood glucose (p〈0.001), without significant effect on serum lipids. Insulin improved glycaemic control primarily by reducing basal hepatic glucose production (p〈0.05), but had no significant effect on peripheral glucose metabolism. The combination of glibenclamide and metformin enhanced significantly total body glucose metabolism (p〈0.05), predominantly by stimulating the non-oxidative pathway. Neither insulin nor the combination therapy altered B-cell response to a test meal. Insulin therapy resulted in a 6% increase in body weight, 63% of which was accounted for by increased fat mass. Although body weight was unchanged during sulfonylurea/metformin therapy, lean body mass and energy expenditure decreased significantly (p〈0.05). We conclude that insulin and glibenclamide/metformin have different long-term effects on glucose and energy metabolism in Type 2 diabetes.
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  • 2
    ISSN: 1432-0428
    Keywords: Type 2 (non-insulin-dependent) diabetes mellitus ; insulin sensitivity ; peripheral glucose utilisation ; non-esterified fatty acids ; risk group
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: Summary The mechanisms underlying insulin resistance in Type 2 (non-insulin-dependent) diabetes mellitus are not fully understood. An enhanced lipid/non-esterified fatty acid oxidation could provide an explanation. To test this hypothesis we examined the relationship between glucose and lipid metabolism in 44 first-degree relatives (28 glucose-tolerant and 16 glucose-intolerant) of Type 2 diabetic patients and in 18 healthy control subjects. Total body glucose disposal was impaired among both glucose-tolerant and glucose-intolerant relatives compared with control subjects (36.3±3.8 and 30.4±2.7 vs 47.7±3.4 μmol · kgLBM/s-1· min−1; p 〈 0.05). The impairment in glucose disposal among the relatives was primarily accounted for by impaired non-oxidative glucose metabolism (14.8±3.0 and 12.5±1.8 vs 25.3±3.1 μmol · kgLBM−1 · min−1; p 〈0.05). Plasma non-esterified fatty acid concentrations were similar in both glucose-tolerant and glucose-intolerant relatives and control subjects (646±36,649±43 and 615±41 μmol/l) and showed the same degree of suppression by insulin (99±8, 86±7 and 84±9 μmol/l). Basal lipid oxidation was similar in all groups (1.29±0.09, 1.52±0.13 and 1.49±0.21 μmol · kgLBM−1· min−1). Furthermore, insulin suppressed lipid oxidation to the same degree in glucose-tolerant, glucose-intolerant relatives and control subjects (0.65±0.13, 0.88±0.15 and 0.59±0.09μmol · kgLBM−1 · min−1). An inverse correlation between plasma non-esterified fatty acid concentration and total body glucose disposal was observed in the group of control subjects (r=−0.540; p〈0.05), but not among the relatives (r=0.002; p=N.S.). In conclusion the present data challenge the view that the “glucose-fatty acid cycle” contributes to the insulin resistance seen in first-degree relatives of patients with Type 2 diabetes.
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  • 3
    ISSN: 1432-0428
    Keywords: Type 2 (non-insulin-dependent) diabetes mellitus ; insulin resistance ; glucose transport ; genes
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: Summary To study whether insulin resistance in Type 2 (non-insulin-dependent) diabetes mellitus is due to a defect in the expression of the insulin-responsive glucose transporter gene (GLUT-4) in human skeletal muscle, we measured the level of GLUT-4 mRNA and (in some of the subjects) its protein in muscle biopsies taken from 14 insulin-resistant patients with Type 2 diabetes, 10 first-degree relatives of the diabetic patients and 12 insulin-sensitive control subjects. Insulin sensitivity was measured with a +45 mU· $${\text{m}}^{{\text{2}}^{{\text{ - 1}}} } $$ ·min−1 euglycaemic insulin clamp in combination with indirect calorimetry and infusion of [3-3H]glucose. GLUT-4 mRNA was measured using a human GLUT-4 cDNA probe and GLUT-4 protein with a polyclonal antibody specific for the 15 amino acid carboxyterminal peptide. Both Type 2 diabetic patients and their relatives showed impaired stimulation of total-body glucose disposal by insulin compared with control subjects (29.5±2.1 and 34.0±4.8 vs 57.9±3.1 μmol·kg lean body mass−1·min−1; p〈0.01). This impairment in glucose disposal was primarily accounted for by a reduction in insulin-stimulated storage of glucose as glycogen (13.0±2.4 and 15.6±3.9 vs 36.9±2.2 μmol·kg lean body mass−1·min−1; p〈0.01). The levels of GLUT-4 mRNA expressed both per μg of total RNA and per μg DNA, were higher in the diabetic patients compared with the control subjects (116±25 vs 53±10 pg/μg RNA and 177±35 vs 112±29 pg/μg DNA; p〈0.05, p〈0.01, respectively). The GLUT-4 mRNA levels in the relatives were not significantly different from that observed in the control subjects (90±16 pg/μg RNA and 117±23 pg/μg DNA; p = NS). The GLUT-4 protein levels did not significantly differ between control subjects, diabetic patients and relatives (494±85, 567±133 and 323±80 cpm/100 μg protein). No correlation was observed between the level of GLUT-4 mRNA andits protein. However, the level of GLUT-4 mRNA and the rate of total-body glucose disposal correlated positively in the control group and in the relatives (both p〈0.05) but not in the diabetic subjects. A positive correlation between the level of GLUT-4 protein and total-body glucose disposal was also observed in the control subjects (r = 0.759; p〈0.05) and in the relatives (r = 0.794; p〈0.01) but not in the diabetic subjects. We conclude that insulin resistance in Type 2 diabetes is not related to a defect in the expression of the GLUT-4 gene in skeletal muscle. Nevertheless, the levels of GLUT-4 mRNA and GLUT-4 protein are related to the rate of total-body glucose disposal in subjects with normal fasting glucose concentrations.
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  • 4
    ISSN: 1432-0428
    Keywords: Type 2 (non-insulin-dependent) diabetes mellitus ; insulin resistance ; hypertension ; lipids ; microalbuminuria
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: Summary We examined the impact of hypertension and microalbuminuria on insulin sensitivity in patients with Type 2 (non-insulin-dependent) diabetes mellitus using the euglycaemic insulin clamp technique in 52 Type 2 diabetic patients and in 19 healthy control subjects. Twenty-five diabetic patients had hypertension and 19 had microalbuminuria. Hypertension per se was associated with a 27% reduction in the rate of total glucose metabolism and a 40% reduction in the rate of non-oxidative glucose metabolism compared with normotensive Type 2 diabetic patients (both p〈0.001). Glucose metabolism was also impaired in normotensive microalbuminuric patients compared with normotensive normoalbuminuric patients (29.4±2.2 vs 40.5±2.8 μmol · kg lean body mass−1 · min−1; p=0.012), primarily due to a reduction in non-oxidative glucose metabolism (12.7±2.9 vs 21.1±2.6 μmol · kg lean body mass−1 ·min−1; p=0.06). In a factorial ANOVA design, however, only hypertension (p=0.008) and the combination of hypertension and microalbuminuria (p=0.030) were significantly associated with the rate of glucose metabolism. The highest triglyceride and lowest HDL cholesterol concentrations were observed in Type 2 diabetic patients with both hypertension and microalbuminuria. Of note, glucose metabolism was indistinguishable from that in control subjects in Type 2 diabetic patients without hypertension and microalbuminuria (40.5±2.8 vs 44.4±2.8 μmol · kg lean body mass−1 · min−1). We conclude that insulin resistance in Type 2 diabetes is predominantly associated with either hypertension or microalbuminuria or with both.
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  • 5
    ISSN: 1432-0428
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Medicine
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  • 6
    ISSN: 1432-0428
    Keywords: Keywords Glucokinase ; HNF-1 ; HNF-4 ; MODY ; MIDD ; genetics.
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: Abstract Aims/hypothesis. To investigate the contribution of mutations in maturity-onset diabetes of the young (MODY) and mitochondrial genes to early-onset diabetes with a strong family history of diabetes in a cohort with a high prevalence of Type I (insulin-dependent) diabetes mellitus. Methods. Screening for sequence variants in the hepatocyte nuclear factor (HNF)–4 α (MODY1), glucokinase (MODY2), HNF-1 α (MODY3) genes and mitochondrial DNA was carried out in 115 Finnish and Swedish patients with early-onset ( ≤ 40 years) diabetes using the single strand conformation polymorphism (SSCP) technique and direct sequencing. Allele frequencies were compared with 118 patients with onset of diabetes Type II (non-insulin-dependent) diabetes mellitus after the age of 40 and 92 non–diabetic control subjects without a family history of diabetes. Results. In total 52 sequence variants were found in the HNF-1α, HNF-4α and glucokinase genes, 12 of which were considered as MODY mutations. Three families had the A3243G mutation in the mitochondrial tRNA Leu gene, which resulted in an overall prevalence of these mutations of 13 %. Conclusion/interpretation. Among 115 Scandinavian families, mutations in the HNF-1α gene represented the most common cause of familial early-onset ( ≤ 40 years) diabetes: MODY3 (5.2 %) more than MODY2 (3.5 %) more than MIDD (2.6 %) more than MODY1 (1.7 %). [Diabetologia (1999) 42: 1131–1137]
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  • 7
    ISSN: 1432-0428
    Keywords: Hypertriglyceridaemia ; insulin resistance ; Type 2 (non-insulin-dependent) diabetes mellitus ; glucose metabolism ; lipid metabolism
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: Summary Hypertriglyceridaemia, which is frequently seen in Type 2 (non-insulin-dependent) diabetes mellitus, is associated with insulin resistance. The connection between hypertriglyceridaemia and insulin resistance is not clear, but could be due to substrate competition between glucose and lipids. To address this question we measured glucose and lipid metabolism in 39 Type 2 diabetic patients with hypertriglyceridaemia, i. e. mean fasting serum triglyceride level equal to or above 2 mmol/l (age 59±1 years, BMI 27.4±0.5 kg/m2, HbA1c8.0±0.2%, serum triglycerides 3.2±0.2 mmol/l) and 41 Type 2 diabetic patients with normotriglyceridaemia, i. e. mean fasting serum triglyceride level below 2 mmol/l (age 58±1 years, BMI 27.0±0.7 kg/m2, HbA1c7.8±0.2 %, serum triglycerides 1.4±0.1 mmol/l). Insulin sensitivity was assessed using a 340 pmol·(m2)−1· min−1 euglycaemic insulin clamp. Substrate oxidation rates were measured with indirect calorimetry and hepatic glucose production was estimated using a primed (25 μCi)-constant (0.25 μCi/min) infusion of [3-3H]-glucose. Suppression of lipid oxidation by insulin was impaired in patients with hypertriglyceridaemia vs patients with normal triglyceride levels (3.5±0.2 vs 3.0±0.2μmol·kg−1· min−1; p〈0.05). Stimulation of glucose disposal by insulin was reduced in hypertriglyceridaemic vs normotriglyceridaemic patients (27.0±1.3 vs 31.9±1.6 μmol·kg−1·min−1; p〈0.05) primarily due to impaired glucose storage (9.8±1.0 vs 14.6±1.4μmol·kg−1·min−1; p〈0.01). In contrast, insulinstimulated glucose oxidation was similar in patients with hypertriglyceridaemia and in patients with normal triglyceride concentrations (16.9±0.8 vs 17.2±0.7μmol·kg−1·min−1). Hepatic glucose production in the basal state and during the clamp did not differ between the two groups. We conclude therefore that oxidative substrate competition between glucose and lipids does not explain insulin resistance associated with hypertriglyceridaemia in Type 2 diabetes. The question remains whether the reduced nonoxidative glucose disposal observed in the patients with hypertriglyceridaemia is genetically determined or a consequence of increased lipid oxidation.
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  • 8
    ISSN: 1432-5233
    Keywords: Insulin ; C-peptide ; Glucose ; Glipizide ; Non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: Abstract The effect of a rapid-acting sulphonylurea, glipizide, on the dose-response relationship between the β-cell response (insulin and C-peptide secretion) and the ambient plasma glucose concentration was examined in 12 healthy and 6 non-insulin-dependent diabetic subjects. The subjects participated in two sets of experiments which were performed in random order: (A) four hyperglycaemic clamp studies, during which the plasma glucose concentration was raised for 120 min by 1 (only in healthy subjects), 3, 7, and 17 mmol/l; and (B) the same four hyperglycaemic clamp studies preceded by ingestion of 5 mg glipizide. All subjects participated in a further study, in which glipizide was ingested and the plasma glucose concentration was maintained at the basal level. In control subjects in the absence of glipizide, the firstphase plasma insulin response (0–10 min) increased progressively with increasing plasma glucose concentration up to 10 mmol/l, above which it tended to plateau. Glipizide augmented the first-phase insulin response without changing the slope of the regression line relating plasma insulin to glucose concentrations. The second-phase plasma insulin response (20–120 min) increased linearly with increasing hyperglycaemia (r=0.997). Glipizide alone increased the plasma insulin response by 180 pmol/l. A similar increase in plasma insulin response following glipizide was observed at each hyperglycaemic step, indicating that glipizide did not affect the sensitivity of the β-cell to glucose. First-phase insulin secretion was reduced in the type 2 (non-insulin-dependent) diabetic patients, and was not influenced by glipizide. The dose-response curve relating second-phase insulin secretion to the ambient plasma glucose concentration was significantly (P〈0.001) flatter in the diabetic patients than in the control subjects. Glipizide alone increased the plasma insulin response by 60 pmol/l without changing the slope of the dose-response curve. It is concluded that, in both type 2 diabetic patients and healthy subjects: (A) sulphonylurea augments glucose-stimulated second-phase insulin secretion without changing the sensitivity of the β-cell to glucose; (B) first-phase insulin secretion is reduced in non-insulin-dependent diabetic patients with fasting hyperglycaemia and is not influenced by sulphonylurea.
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