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DIABETES CARE
Volume 44, Issue 2, Pages 390-398Publisher
AMER DIABETES ASSOC
DOI: 10.2337/dc20-0567
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- Chief Scientist Office of the Scottish Government Health and Social Care Directorates [ETM/47]
- Diabetes UK [10/0004010]
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The study found that even minimal residual C-peptide secretion could have clinical benefits in type 1 diabetes. The effects on the risk of hypoglycemic episodes were detectable at lower levels of C-peptide.
OBJECTIVE To quantify the relationship of residual C-peptide secretion to glycemic outcomes and microvascular complications in type 1 diabetes. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS C-peptide was measured in an untimed blood sample in the Scottish Diabetes Research Network Type 1 Bioresource (SDRNT1BIO) cohort of 6,076 people with type 1 diabetes monitored for an average of 5.2 years. RESULTS In regression models adjusted for age at onset and duration, effect sizes for C-peptide >= 200 vs. <5 pmol/L were as follows: insulin dose at baseline, 27% lower (P = 2 x 10(-39)); HbA(1c) during follow-up, 4.9 mmol/mol lower (P = 3 x 10(-13)); hazard ratio for hospital admission for diabetic ketoacidosis during follow-up, 0.44 (P = 0.0001); odds ratio for incident retinopathy, 0.51 (P = 0.0003). Effects on the risk of serious hypoglycemic episodes were detectable at lower levels of C-peptide, and the form of the relationship was continuous down to the limit of detection (3 pmol/L). In regression models contrasting C-peptide 30 to <200 pmol/L with <5 pmol/L, the odds ratio for self-report of at least one serious hypoglycemic episode in the last year was 0.56 (P = 6 x 10(-8)), and the hazard ratio for hospital admission for hypoglycemia during follow-up was 0.52 (P = 0.03). CONCLUSIONS These results in a large representative cohort suggest that even minimal residual C-peptide secretion could have clinical benefit in type 1 diabetes, in contrast to a follow-up study of the Diabetes Control and Complications Trial (DCCT) intensively treated cohort where an effect on hypoglycemia was seen only at C-peptide levels >= 130 pmol/L. This has obvious implications for the design and evaluation of trials of interventions to preserve or restore pancreatic islet function in type 1 diabetes.
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