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DIABETES
Volume 60, Issue 5, Pages 1474-1477Publisher
AMER DIABETES ASSOC
DOI: 10.2337/db10-1302
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- National Institutes of Health [UL1-RR-024992, DK-56341, RR-00954, DK-37948, HD-57796]
- Amgen
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OBJECTIVE-Leptin therapy improves insulin sensitivity in people with leptin deficiency, but it is not known whether it improves insulin action in people who are not leptin deficient. The purpose of the current study was to determine whether leptin treatment has weight loss-independent effects on insulin action in obese subjects with type 2 diabetes. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS-We conducted a randomized, placebo-controlled trial in obese subjects (BMI: 35.4 +/- 0.6 kg/m(2); mean +/- SE) with newly diagnosed type 2 diabetes. Subjects were randomized to treatment with placebo (saline), low-dose (30 mg/day), or high-dose (80 mg/day) recombinant methionyl human (r-Met hu) leptin for 14 days. Multiorgan insulin sensitivity before and after treatment was evaluated by using the hyperinsulinemic-euglycemic clamp procedure in conjunction with stable isotopically labeled tracer infusions to measure glucose, glycerol, and fatty acid kinetics. RESULTS-Low-dose and high-dose leptin treatment resulted in a threefold (P < 0.01) and 150-fold (P < 0.001) increase in basal plasma leptin concentrations, respectively. However, neither low-dose nor high-dose therapy had an effect on insulin-mediated suppression of glucose, glycerol, or palmitate rates of appearance into plasma compared with placebo. In addition, leptin treatment did not increase insulin-mediated stimulation of glucose disposal compared with placebo (14.3 +/- 3.1, 18.4 +/- 3.6, 16.7 +/- 2.4 vs. 17.5 +/- 2.5, 20.7 +/- 3.0, 19.1 +/- 3.3 mu mol/kg body wt/min before vs. after treatment in the placebo, low-dose, and high-dose leptin groups, respectively). CONCLUSIONS-r-Met hu leptin does not have weight loss-independent, clinically important effects on insulin sensitivity in obese people with type 2 diabetes. Diabetes 60:1474-1477, 2011
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