Glucocorticoid induced insulin resistance impairs basal but not glucose entrained high-frequency insulin pulsatility in
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Glucocorticoid induced insulin resistance impairs basal but not glucose entrained high-frequency insulin pulsatility in humans M. Hollingdal1, C. B. Juhl1, R. Dall1, J. Sturis2, J. D. Veldhuis3, O. Schmitz1, N. Pùrksen1 1
Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark Novo Nordisk, Bagsvaerd, Denmark 3 Department of Medicine, General Clinical Research Center, and NSF Center for Biological Timing, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA 2
Abstract Aims/hypothesis. Type II (non-insulin-dependent) diabetes mellitus is characterized by abnormal insulin secretion, which involves a disrupted basal and glucose-entrained insulin pulsatility, and by insulin resistance. The aim of this study was to examine the influence of glucocorticoid-mediated insulin resistance on the regularity of high frequency insulin pulsatility. Methods. Eight healthy men (means SD; age 24.4 0.5 years, BMI 23.2 0.7 kg/m2) were examined after prednisolone treatment (30 mg/day) or placebo for 6 days in a double-blind, placebo controlled, cross-over study with a 6-week washout period. Blood was collected every minute for 60 min during baseline and glucose-entrainment. Time-series were assessed by spectral and autocorrelation analyses and a first-phase insulin secretion test was carried out. Results. Prednisolone treatment led to insulin resistance as expected (HOMA-S; prednisolone vs placebo; 1.85 0.26 vs 1.02 0.10; p < 0.01) with exaggerated first-phase insulin secretion (3016 468 pmol/l
Insulin resistance and relative insulin deficiency are pronounced elements in the pathogenesis of Type II (non-insulin-dependent) diabetes mellitus [1, 2]. It Received: 27 April 2001 and in revised form: 28 September 2001 Corresponding author: M. Hollingdal, MD, Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Aarhus University Hospital, Noerrebrogade 44, 8000 Aarhus C, Denmark e-mail: [email protected] Abbreviations: HOMA-S, Homeostasis model assessment of insulin sensitivity.
vs 1688 207 pmol/l; p < 0.01), suggesting a stable disposition index. During baseline, normalized spectral power of serum insulin concentration time-series was reduced during prednisolone exposure compared with placebo (8.40 0.95 vs 11.79 1.66; p < 0.05) indicating a disturbed high-frequency oscillatory insulin release. A similar trend was observed using autocorrelation analysis (0.23 0.04 vs 0.32 0.07; p = 0.12). During glucose entrainment no difference in normalized spectral power or in the autocorrelation coefficient between prednisolone and placebo (p > 0.1) was observed. Conclusion/interpretation. Six days of prednisolone treatment resulted in a pertubed high-frequency insulin release in the fasting state whereas the ability of glucose to entrain insulin secretion was preserved. This indicates a mechanism of pertubed glucose-insulin feedback mechanism which causes irregular oscillatory insulin release. [Diabetologia (2002) 45: 49±55] Keywords Prednisolone, insulin resistance, glucose entrainment, high frequenc
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