Variation of C peptide decay rate in diabetic patients with positive glutamic acid decarboxylase antibody : better discrimination with initial fasting C peptide

BACKGROUND: Diabetic patients with positive glutamic acid decarboxylase antibody (GAD-Ab) could be classified as autoimmune diabetes, which is discriminated into acute-onset classical type 1 diabetes (T1DM) and latent autoimmune diabetes in adults (LADA). However, whether the decay rate of beta cell function is relevant with the mode of onset (acute or latent-onset) is unclear. We aimed to investigate whether initial C peptide levels could help differentiate variation of C peptide decay rate.

METHODS: Five hundred and twenty-seven newly diagnosed GAD-Ab positive diabetic patients were followed up to assess the natural course of beta cell function. Beta cell function failure was defined as fasting C peptide and postprandial C peptide levels less than 100 pmol/L and 150 pmol/L respectively.

RESULTS: All these diabetic patients were discriminated according to initial fasting C peptide of 300 pmol/L, that is B+ (larger than 300 pmol/L) and B- (less than 300 pmol/L) group. The proportion of developing beta cell function failure was 13.1% in B+ group and 90.5% in B- group, which suggested that fasting C peptide levels made a good distinction of the heterogeneity in autoimmune diabetes. Receiver operator characteristic (ROC) analysis suggested that the fasting C peptide level of 300 pmol/L was optimal for determining beta cell function failure with sensitivity of 90.5% and specificity of 86.9%.

CONCLUSIONS: Initial level of fasting C peptide is a good indicator for predicting beta cell function failure in GAD-Ab positive diabetic patients.

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E-Artikel

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2013

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2013

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:13

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BMC endocrine disorders - 13(2013) vom: 01. März, Seite 10

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Englisch

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Li, Xia [VerfasserIn]
Huang, Gan [VerfasserIn]
Lin, Jian [VerfasserIn]
Yang, Lin [VerfasserIn]
Zhou, Zhiguang [VerfasserIn]

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Date Completed 19.03.2013

Date Revised 31.03.2022

published: Electronic

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10.1186/1472-6823-13-10

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NLM225438100