Body iron stores and risk of type 2 diabetes: results from the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC)-Potsdam study
| Autor: | Rainer Lehmann, Matthias B. Schulze, Heiner Boeing, Jukka Montonen, Andreas Fritsche, Tobias Pischon, H. G. Joost, Annika Steffen |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2012 |
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Male Endocrinology Diabetes and Metabolism Iron Body iron store Type 2 diabetes EPIC Article Body iron Cohort Studies Risk Factors Environmental health Diabetes mellitus Germany Receptors Transferrin medicine Internal Medicine Humans Prospective Studies Prospective cohort study Soluble transferrin receptor Aged Ferritin business.industry Follow up studies Middle Aged medicine.disease European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition Europe Diabetes Mellitus Type 2 Cardiovascular and Metabolic Diseases Ferritins Female business Biomarkers Cohort study Follow-Up Studies |
| Zdroj: | Diabetologia |
| ISSN: | 1432-0428 0012-186X |
| Popis: | AIMS/HYPOTHESIS: The aim of this study was to prospectively examine the association between body iron stores and risk of type 2 diabetes. METHODS: We designed a case-cohort study among 27,548 individuals within the population-based European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC)-Potsdam study. During 7 years of follow-up, 849 incident cases of type 2 diabetes were identified. Of these, 607 remained for analyses after exclusion of participants with missing data or abnormal glucose levels at baseline. A sub-cohort of 2,500 individuals was randomly selected from the full cohort, comprising 1,969 individuals after applying the same exclusion criteria. RESULTS: After adjustment for age, sex, BMI, waist circumference, sports activity, bicycling, education, occupational activity, smoking habit, alcohol consumption and circulating levels of gamma-glutamyltransferase, alanine aminotransferase, fetuin-A, high-sensitivity C-reactive protein, adiponectin, HDL-cholesterol and triacylglycerol, higher serum ferritin concentrations were associated with a higher risk of type 2 diabetes (RR in the highest vs lowest quintile, 1.73; 95% CI 1.15, 2.61; p (trend) = 0.002). No significant association was observed for soluble transferrin receptor (RR 1.33; 95% CI 0.85, 2.09; p (trend) = 0.50). The soluble transferrin receptor-to-ferritin ratio was significantly inversely related to risk (RR 0.61; 95% CI 0.41, 0.91; p (trend) = 0.02). CONCLUSIONS/INTERPRETATION: High ferritin levels are associated with higher risk of type 2 diabetes independently of established diabetes risk factors and a range of diabetes biomarkers whereas soluble transferrin receptor concentrations are not related to risk. These results support the hypothesis that higher iron stores below the level of haemochromatosis are associated with risk of type 2 diabetes. |
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