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The 24-hour urinary creatinine excretion value can be used as an index of protein nutrition; the creatinine height index and lean body mass can be estimated from this value. On the basis of longitudinally measured 24-hour urinary creatinine excretions during the initial 7 years of type 1 diabetes in an incidence cohort of 147 adult patients, we studied creatinine height index and lean body mass and possible relationships to sequential measurements of glycated hemoglobin (HbA1c). The patients were divided into four groups according to their glycemic control during these 7 years: I, HbA1c < 7.4% (n = 37); II, HbA1c 7.4% to 8.2% (n = 37); III, HbA1c 8.3% to 8.9% (n = 38); IV, HbA1c > 8.9% (n = 35). One year after the onset of diabetes, height indices were as follows (% of normal values, median and quartiles): I, 104% (90 to 116); II, 101% (78 to 105); III, 121% (92 to 128); IV, 87% (78 to 109) ([IV] < [I to III]; p < .05). During the following 6 years no significant differences in height index were observed among the four groups of patients at any point in time. Slightly higher calculated lean body mass values were found in the most well-controlled patients, but otherwise no differences were found in lean body mass. It is concluded that, apart from the first year, indices of protein nutrition remain normal during the initial 7 years of type 1 diabetes, even in patients with poor glycemic control.
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PMID:Creatinine height index and lean body mass in adult patients with insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus followed for 7 years from onset. 816 4

In order to gain insight into the potential role of endothelin, a 21 amino acid peptide produced by endothelial cells, in the development of complications of diabetes mellitus, basal plasma endothelin levels were measured in 152 patients with diabetes mellitus (83 patients with type 1 diabetes mellitus, 69 patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus) and compared to those in 50 healthy controls. Blood was drawn at 8.00 a.m. under resting conditions and endothelin was determined after prior extraction by a sensitive radioimmunoassay. Endothelin levels were increased in patients with diabetes mellitus in comparison to controls (controls 0.9 +/- 0.1 pg/ml, type 1 diabetes mellitus 1.7 +/- 0.1, type-2-diabetes mellitus 2.0 +/- 0.1 pg/ml, p < 0.01 vs controls). 60% of patients with type 1 diabetes mellitus and elevated endothelin levels > 2.5 pg/ml (highest value measured in a control subject) had arterial hypertension with blood pressure > 140/90 mm Hg (p < 0.05 vs patients with normal endothelin levels). A reduced creatinine clearance (< 60 ml/min) was detected in 30% of patients with type 1 diabetes mellitus with elevated endothelin levels > 2.5 pg/ml, but only in 7% of patients with endothelin levels < 2.5 pg/ml (p < 0.05). In patients with type 1 diabetes mellitus and elevated endothelin levels diabetic retinopathy and peripheral neuropathy (p < 0.05) were more prevalent than in patients with normal endothelin values. 62% of patients with elevated endothelin levels had insufficient metabolic control (HbA1 concentrations above 10%). Positive correlations were found between endothelin and human atrial natriuretic peptide levels.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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PMID:[Significance of increased endothelin level for development of sequelae of diabetes mellitus]. 832 15

A total of 412 Hong Kong Chinese diabetic patients were studied on at least two occasions 8-16 weeks apart. Although 28% were insulin-treated, only 3.6% had insulin-dependent diabetes (IDDM). In the remaining 397 patients with non-insulin-dependent diabetes (NIDDM), the mean (s.d.) body mass index (BMI) was 24.4 +/- 3.2 kg/m2 in females and 24.2 +/- 3.2 kg/m2 in males. Obesity was present in 17% of males (BMI > 27 kg/m2) and 40% of females (BMI > 25 kg/m2). Established hypertension was present in 49%. Abnormal albuminuria, defined as a mean urinary albumin/creatinine (UA/Cr) ratio greater than 5.4 mg/mmol based on two random spot urine samples, was present in 47%. On stepwise multiple regression analysis, UA/Cr ratio (R2 = 0.34, F = 65.4, P < 0.001) showed significant associations with systolic blood pressure (standardized regression coefficient beta = 0.40, P < 0.001), plasma creatinine concentration (beta = 0.27, P < 0.001) and glycosylated haemoglobin (beta = 0.20, P < 0.001). While the prevalence of hypertension increased with increasing severity of proteinuria, 40% of normoalbuminuric patients had hypertension. Among patients diagnosed before the age of 35 (n = 67), 52% were insulin-treated although only 10% were insulin-dependent. Among these NIDDM patients of young onset (n = 59), obesity was present in 25% of males and 56% of females. Overall, 18% of these patients had a blood pressure greater than 140/90 mmHg and 27% had abnormal albuminuria. In Hong Kong Chinese, diabetes mellitus is predominantly non-insulin-dependent even in the young. Obesity is more prevalent among females. Abnormal albuminuria is relatively common and is closely associated with hypertension and glycaemic control. In the light of increasing prevalence of diabetes among overseas Chinese, our findings may have important implications in the management of Chinese diabetic patients.
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PMID:Obesity, albuminuria and hypertension among Hong Kong Chinese with non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (NIDDM). 849 35

PKT has become an important option in selected IDDM patients being considered for kidney transplantation because of its ability to offer superior glycemic control and improved quality of life. As both kidney graft survival and overall mortality are comparable following PKT and kidney transplantation alone at many centers, neither the survival of the patient nor the success of the kidney transplant need be jeopardized by the addition of a pancreas graft. The greater morbidity of PKT can be justified by the evidence that a pancreas graft will prevent recurrent diabetic nephropathy, result in greater improvements in sensory/motor neuropathy, and in some but not all studies, cause greater stabilization of eye disease. Improvements in lipid profiles observed after PKT but not after kidney transplant alone may predict better cardiovascular outcomes as well. Determination of who should receive an isolated pancreas transplant is more complex. Success rates are lower than after PKT. It remains important to ascertain that the candidate is susceptible to diabetic complications, or has repeated bouts of hypoglycemia or ketoacidosis unresponsive to other measures to justify the risks of long-term immuno-suppression. More difficult to determine is whether or when individuals who have advancing diabetic complications yet relatively preserved renal function (creatinine clearance > 70 mL/min) should become candidates. For now, each individual is considered on a case by case basis and the relative risks and benefits for each individual are carefully assessed. However, patient selection will be greatly aided by further research assessing the long-term risks and benefits of all types of pancreas transplantation. Pancreas transplantation will remain an important option in the treatment of IDDM until alternative strategies are developed that can provide equal glycemic control with less or no immunosuppression or less overall morbidity. Most of the research to date has concentrated on the consequences of pancreas transplantation on microvascular complications. However, cardiovascular disease events represent the greatest cause of mortality in pancreas transplant candidates. Thus, changes in cardiovascular risk after pancreas transplantation may be more important to long-term survival than any other factor and should receive greater attention in future studies.
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PMID:Consequences of pancreas transplantation. 852 Oct 25

Quantitative structural studies in native kidneys of IDDM patients have almost all been cross sectional, and little is known regarding the dynamics of progression of structural lesions in relation to clinical progression. It has been suggested that interstitial may be more important than glomerular changes in determining functional outcome. This study evaluated renal structure in sequential biopsies from IDDM patients with established renal lesions to determine whether glomerular, arteriolar and interstitial changes progress together and in concordance with measures of renal function. Eleven long-term IDDM patients [age 29 +/- 10 years, duration 17 +/- 7 years (mean +/- SD)] had renal function studies and kidney biopsies performed at two occasions 5.6 +/- 1.6 years apart. HbA1 as well as creatinine clearance (CCr) did not change over this time; albumin excretion rate (AER) increased from 12 (6 to 280) to 19 (5 to 2462) [median (range)] mg/24 hr (P < 0.03). AER increased in the three patients with abnormal albuminuria at first observation, and two normoalbuminuric patients became microalbuminuric. Blood pressure (BP) did not change; however, the number of patients on antihypertensive therapy increased from 1 to 5. All structural parameters were abnormal at first evaluation. Mesangial fractional volume [Vv(mes/glom)] and mean glomerular volume increased and the surface density of the peripheral glomerular basement membrane (GBM) decreased, while GBM width did not change over the five years of the study. Also, arteriolar hyalinosis lesions progressed, while the fractional volume of cortical interstitium [Vv(interstitium/cortex)] and the percent of globally sclerosed glomeruli did not change. The only structural change that correlated with the increasing AER was the change in Vv(mes/glom). Changes in structural parameters, AER or CCr did not significantly correlate with baseline BP or change in BP over the five years. Although based on a small number of patients, this study suggests that at the stage of disease where renal lesions are established and where some IDDM patients are in transition to microalbuminuria or early clinical nephropathy, continuing mesangial expansion is the central variable. Interstitial changes were not occurring over this time. Progressive interstitial expansion at the later stages of diabetic nephropathy may thus be consequent to advanced diabetic glomerular injury.
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PMID:Sequential renal biopsies in insulin-dependent diabetic patients: structural factors associated with clinical progression. 858 54

We evaluated urinary N-acetyl-beta-glucosaminidase (NAG) excretion in overnight and in second morning urine in 50 young diabetic patients, aged 7.4-25 years with a disease duration from 2-19.6 years. In all patients we evaluated urinary NAG and creatinine excretion, in both overnight and second morning urine, glycosuria, fasting blood glucose and HbA1c levels, insulin requirement, blood pressure, and the presence of microangiopathic complications. Urinary NAG excretion was also evaluated in 69 age- and sex-matched controls. NAG was determined using 3-cresolsulfonphtaleinyl-beta-N-acetylglucosaminide as substrate (Boehringer Mannheim, Germany). In the diabetic patients NAG/Cre ratios were significantly higher than in controls both in overnight and second morning urine (P < 0.0005, respectively). We observed significantly higher NAG/Cre ratio levels in the second morning than in overnight urine, both in controls and in diabetics (P < 0.0005, respectively). Elevated (above 2 S.D. of the mean) NAG/Cre ratios were found in 17/50 patients (34%) in overnight urine and in 29/50 (58%) in second morning urine. No correlation was observed between NAG/Cre ratio levels and age, duration of disease, pubertal stage, body mass index, fasting blood glucose, glycosuria, insulin requirement and blood pressure. The patients with one or more complications did show NAG/Cre ratio levels significantly higher than those without complications (P < 0.005) in second morning urine, but not in overnight urine. Our study has demonstrated an increased rate of urinary NAG excretion in young IDDM patients, in particular in those with microangiopathic complications.
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PMID:Increased urinary N-acetyl-beta-glucosaminidase (NAG) excretion in young insulin-dependent diabetic patients. 859 5

Simultaneous kidney-pancreas (SPK) transplantation has become an accepted therapeutic modality for patients with Type I diabetes mellitus-mediated end-stage renal disease (ESRD). However, the intraperitoneal placement of the renal allograft may pose technical problems when attempting percutaneous biopsy or Doppler ultrasound examination. Recently, the Stanford University Transplant Center adopted the technique of retroperitoneal placement of the renal allograft with intraperitoneal placement of the pancreas allograft (RETRO). From August 1993 to August 1994, a total of 12 patients underwent SPK with this new technique. Twelve patients who had received SPK with the standard technique served as historical controls (INTRA). Demographic data, follow-up, operative time, creatinine and amylase on discharge, length of stay, intraoperative fluid requirements, rejection episodes, thrombotic complications, infections, and number of open and closed renal biopsies were compared between the two groups. Average length of follow-up was greater in the INTRA group (29.3 +/- 1.7 vs. 15.9 +/- 1.1 months). In addition, the RETRO group had significantly fewer open renal biopsies (1/15) in comparison to the INTRA group (7/12) (p < 0.001). The two groups otherwise did not differ in any of the parameters studied. We conclude that retroperitoneal kidney and intraperitoneal pancreas allograft placement is associated with a significantly decreased requirement for open renal biopsy with its associated operating room and anesthetic costs. In addition, the option of transcystoscopic or percutaneous needle biopsy of the pancreas allograft is preserved. This technique should be considered as an alternative to intraperitoneal placement of both the pancreas and renal allografts.
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PMID:The utility of retroperitoneal kidney placement in simultaneous kidney pancreas transplantation. 864 89

Development of dialysis methods and progress in kidney and pancreas transplantation allowed to treat an increasing number of patients suffering from diabetic nephropathy (D.N.). This report evaluates availability and results of treatment in these patients. 31.12.93 in Gdansk and Bydgoszcz area there were treated 519 patients, including 43 (8.2%) with D.N. It is impossible to evaluate the demand for renal replacement therapy in patients with D.N., because there is no exact data concerning diabetic patients with progressing renal failure. Up to now 88 patients with D.M. (68 with IDDM, 20 with NIDDM) were treat in this area. Most of them (92%) were treated with hemodialysis is and only a few with CAPD, 13 patients received a kidney graft. The average patient survival on dialysis treatment in NIDDM patients was 15 months and in IDDM patients was 11 months. Deaths were mainly caused by cardiovascular complications. The results of renal replacement therapy in these patients cannot be compared with data from other re ports, because the treatment was introduced at advanced stage of D.N. in patients with systemic complications (serum creatinine in IDDM was 9.7 md% and in NIDDM was 6.2% mg%). Following conclusions can be drawn from our observations: 1. There is a need for close cooperation between diabetologist and nephrologist in repeat of evaluation of the demand for renal replacement therapy and time for its institution in a particular patient. 2. The choice of method of renal replacement therapy depends on clinical findings in a particular patient but also on methods available in a particular center. 3. Improvement of therapy outcome can be achieved primarily by earlier institution of dialysis (serum creatinine below 5 m5%).
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PMID:[Evaluation of acceptance rate and outcome of renal replacement therapy in patients with diabetic nephropathy--multicenter study]. 865 29

Elevated serum sialic acid (SSA) predicts cardiovascular disease in the non-diabetic population and is also associated with the presence of microalbuminuria and clinical proteinuria in patients with insulin-dependent diabetes (IDDM). We have studied 121 patients with IDDM of long duration (mean duration 25.2 years) to investigate the relationship of SSA concentrations to the presence of retinopathy, nephropathy, and neuropathy. SSA levels were elevated in patients with retinopathy (0.578 +/- 0.161 gl-1, n = 98) when compared with those without retinopathy (0.468 +/- 0.145 gl-1, n = 23, p = 0.002). Patients with nephropathy (urinary albumin:creatinine ratio of > 3 mg mmol-1 in all of three early morning specimens of urine) also had raised SSA levels (0.625 +/- 0.169 gl-1, n = 30) compared with those without nephropathy (0.533 +/- 0.160 gl-1, n = 91, p = 0.006). There was a significant correlation of SSA with urinary albumin:creatinine ratio (correlation coefficient 0.33, p < 0.001). SSA levels were not related to the presence or absence of neuropathy (0.567 +/- 0.181 gl-1, n = 28, vs 0.533 +/- 0.160 gl-1, n = 93, p = 0.92, respectively). In conclusion, retinopathy and nephropathy but not neuropathy are associated with increased SSA levels in patients with IDDM. The significance of this is not yet clear but it is possible that sialic acid is involved in the pathophysiology of microvascular disease in IDDM.
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PMID:Serum sialic acid and the long-term complications of insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus. 868 44

This study examines the effect of pregnancy on fetal outcome and maternal renal function in 17 women with Type 1 diabetes mellitus and nephropathy attending a joint diabetic-antenatal clinic between 1985 and 1993. There were 7 successful pregnancies in 6 women with moderate renal impairment, mean pre-pregnancy serum creatinine 165 mumol l-1 (Group 1), and 12 in 11 women with proteinuria and preserved renal function (Group 2). Median gestation of pregnancy was 31 + 3 weeks in Group 1 and 36 + 4 weeks in Group 2 (p < 0.05). All babies in Group 1 required neonatal intensive care for a median of 19 days (range 8-271) as compared to only 5 of 13 in Group 2 whose median stay was 13 (7-17) days (p < 0.05). There was one late death in Group 1. Longitudinal creatinine data in those with moderate renal impairment suggest no systematic adverse long-term effect of pregnancy on maternal renal function, although differing changes in renal function were observed during pregnancy. The generally favourable outcome achieved relied heavily upon neonatal care expertise.
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PMID:Outcome of pregnancy in patients with insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus and nephropathy with moderate renal impairment. 874 19


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