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Serum complement C3 and islet β-cell function in patients with type 2 diabetes: A 4.6-year prospective follow-up study
Ist Teil von
Endocrine, 2020-02, Vol.67 (2), p.321-330
Ort / Verlag
New York: Springer US
Erscheinungsjahr
2020
Quelle
2022 ECC(Springer)
Beschreibungen/Notizen
Purpose
Serum complement C3 has been shown to contribute to the incidence of type 2 diabetes (T2D), but how serum complement C3 affects islet β-cell function throughout the course of T2D is unclear. This study explored whether serum complement C3 is independently associated with changes in islet β-cell function over time in patients with T2D.
Methods
Serum complement C3 was measured, and endogenous β-cell function was evaluated by area under the C-peptide curve (AUC
cp
) during an oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT) in 411 patients with T2D at baseline from 2011 to 2015. Next, 347 of those patients with available data were pooled for a final follow-up analysis from 2014 to 2018. Changes in islet β-cell function at follow-up were evaluated by AUC
cp
percentage changes (ΔAUC
cp
%). In addition, other possible clinical risks for diabetes were also examined.
Results
The 347 patients included in the analysis had a diabetes duration of 4.84 ± 3.63 years at baseline. Baseline serum complement C3 (baseline C3) levels were positively correlated with baseline natural logarithm of AUC
cp
(lnAUC
cp
) (
n
= 347,
r
= 0.288,
p
< 0.001), and baseline C3 was independently associated with baseline lnAUC
cp
(
β
= 0.17,
t
= 3.52,
p
< 0.001) after adjustment for baseline glycemic status and other clinical confounders by multivariate liner regression analysis. Compared with the baseline values, complement C3 changes (ΔC3) and ΔAUC
cp
% was –0.15 ± 0.28 mg/ml and –17.2 ± 18.4%, respectively, at a follow-up visit 4.57 ± 0.78 years later. Moreover, ΔC3 was positively correlated with ΔAUC
cp
% (
n
= 347,
r
= 0.302,
p
< 0.001). Furthermore, each 0.1 mg/ml increase in ΔC3 was associated with a higher ΔAUC
cp
% (1.41% [95% CI, 0.82–2.00%]) after adjusting for changes in glycemic status and other clinical confounders at follow-up.
Conclusions
In addition to serum complement C3 being independently associated with islet β-cell function at baseline, its changes were also independently associated with changes in islet β-cell function over time in patients with T2D.