Publication Description
Relationship of Family History of Type 2 Diabetes, Hypoglycemia, and Autoantibodies to Weight Gain and Lipids With Intensive
and Conventional Therapy in the Diabetes Control and Complications Trial
Jonathan Q. Purnell 1 ,
Raj K. Dev 2 ,
Michael W. Steffes 3 ,
Patricia A. Cleary 4 ,
Jerry P. Palmer 2 ,
Irl B. Hirsch 2 ,
John E. Hokanson 5 and
John D. Brunzell 2
1 Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Clinical Nutrition, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, Oregon
2 Division of Metabolism, Endocrinology, and Nutrition, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington
3 University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota
4 George Washington University, Rockville, Maryland
5 University of Colorado, Denver, Colorado
Address correspondence and reprint requests to Jonathan Q. Purnell, MD, Oregon Health & Science University, Division of Endocrinology,
Diabetes, and Clinical Nutrition, L607, 3181 SW Sam Jackson Park Rd., Portland, OR 97201. E-mail: purnellj{at}ohsu.edu
Abstract
Intensive therapy for type 1 diabetes results in greater weight gain than conventional therapy. Many factors may predispose
to this greater weight gain, including improved glycemic control, genetic susceptibility to obesity, and hypoglycemia. To
study this, relationships among family history of type 2 diabetes, frequency of severe hypoglycemia, β-cell autoantibodies,
and weight gain were examined in 1,168 subjects aged ≥18 years at baseline randomized to intensive and conventional therapy
groups in the Diabetes Control and Complications Trial. With intensive therapy, subjects with a family history of type 2 diabetes
had greater central weight gain and dyslipidemia characterized by higher triglyceride levels and greater cholesterol in VLDLs
and intermediate-density lipoproteins compared with subjects with no family history. Neither the frequency of severe hypoglycemia
nor positivity to GAD65 and insulinoma-associated protein 2 antibodies was associated with increased weight gain with either
intensive or conventional therapy. These data support the hypothesis that increased weight gain with intensive therapy might
be explained, in part, by genetic traits.
DCCT, Diabetes Control and Complications Trial
IA-2, insulinoma-associated protein 2
IDL, intermediate-density lipoprotein
WHR, waist-to-hip ratio
Footnotes
Accepted July 16, 2003.
Received October 28, 2002.
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