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High plasma retinol binding protein-4 and low plasma adiponectin concentrations are associated with severity of glucose intolerance in women with previous gestational diabetes mellitus
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- Issue Date
- 2008-05-22
- Publisher
- Endocrine Society
- Citation
- J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 93(8):3142-3148
- Keywords
- Adiponectin/*blood ; Adult ; Diabetes, Gestational/*blood ; Female ; Glucose Intolerance/*blood ; Humans ; Linear Models ; Metabolic Syndrome X/blood ; Prealbumin/analysis ; Pregnancy ; Retinol-Binding Proteins, Plasma/*analysis
- Abstract
- CONTEXT: Women with previous gestational diabetes mellitus (pGDM) are at high risk of developing type 2 diabetes mellitus in the future. The role of adipokines in women with pGDM has not been established. OBJECTIVE: We investigated whether circulating adipokine concentration is associated with abnormal glucose homeostasis in women with pGDM. DESIGN, SETTING, PATIENTS, AND MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: We measured the plasma concentrations of retinol-binding protein-4 (RBP4), transthyretin (TTR), and adiponectin and metabolic parameters in four groups of women who exhibited normal glucose tolerance (NGT) during a previous pregnancy (NP, n = 17), NGT after GDM (GDM-NGT, n = 72), impaired glucose tolerance after GDM (GDM-IGT, n = 60), and type 2 diabetes after GDM (GDM-DM, n = 8). RESULTS: Plasma RBP4 concentration was significantly higher in women with GDM-DM, GDM-IGT, and GDM-NGT than in those with NP. RBP4 concentration correlated positively with TTR concentration; fasting plasma glucose, insulin, and triglyceride concentrations; blood pressure; abdominal fat area; and homeostasis model assessment of insulin resistance. Plasma TTR concentration was elevated in women with GDM-DM compared with other groups. In contrast, adiponectin concentration was lowest in the GDM-DM group and correlated inversely with parameters of insulin resistance. Resistin concentration was higher only in the GDM-NGT and GDM-IGT groups, whereas leptin did not differ between groups. Plasma RBP4 and adiponectin concentrations were inversely correlated. CONCLUSIONS: The severity of glucose intolerance in women with pGDM is associated with high RBP4 and low adiponectin concentrations.
- ISSN
- 0021-972X (Print)
- Language
- English
- URI
- http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&dopt=Citation&list_uids=18492757
http://jcem.endojournals.org/cgi/reprint/93/8/3142.pdf
https://hdl.handle.net/10371/67928
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