Identification of insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus before the onset of clinical symptoms.
Identification of insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus before the onset of clinical symptoms.
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在临床症状出现之前识别胰岛素依赖型糖尿病。
DOI:
10.1016/s0022-3476(88)80078-7
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发表时间:
1988
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Maclaren,NK
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作者:
Riley,WJ;Winter,WE;Maclaren,NK
Preventive medicine is built on an appreciation of disease etiopathogenesis and natural history. Screening for disease susceptibility to insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus could allow recognition of individuals" at risk" before the development of appreciable degrees of beta cell damage. A recommendation to survey unaffected relatives of patients with IDDM, as well as the general population, for" prediabetes" would be justifiable assuming the availability of effective and safe preventive therapy and of appropriate screening tests for disease susceptibility. Major advances in our ability to detect susceptibility to IDDM 1 have centered around the recognition of a serologic marker for beta cell autoimmunity: cytoplasmic islet cell autoantibodies. 2 Recently, researchers have also begun to consider therapeutic modalities aimed at interrupting or preventing autoimmune beta cell destruction. 3 In general, screening tests should be reliable, reproducible, inexpensive, and noninvasive. How well does the ICA assay meet these criteria? ICAs are detected by indirect immunofluorescence on unfixed" snap frozen" cryosections of human pancreas. The use of nonhuman pancreatic substrate, the differences in sensitivity of the pancreatic specimens, the variability in observer interpretation, and the methodologic modifications in the ICA assay are just some of the reasons that reported ICA frequencies vary among different laboratories. For example, in newly diagnosed IDDM patients, reported ICA frequencies range between 65% and 90%; in nondiabetic first-degree relatives of IDDM patients, ICA frequencies vary between 0.9% and 9%. Thus there is a recognized necessity and an ongoing effort to standardize the ICA assay: The consensus of the latest ICA workshop held in New York City, Oct. 25 and 26, 1987, was to recommend the exclusive use of human tissue as substrate, strict adherence to" blinded" interpretation, and the reporting of results in Juvenile Diabetes Foundation units by using a standard curve based on internationally defined standard sera. Only in the past few years have ICAs been evaluated as a possible prospective marker of beta cell dysfunction or impending IDDM:, 6 The retrospective studies from the Joslin Clinic demonstrated that in nondiabetic relatives ofIDDM patients, ICAs were strongly predictive of insulinopenia (after intravenous injection of glucose) and of the eventual development of IDDM. These researchers were able to improve their ability to identify individuals" at risk" by ascertaining insulin autoantibodies. This seems prudent because 10% to 35% of IDDM patients apparently lack ICAs at the time of diagnosis. Other potential disease-susceptibility or disease-activity markers include activated T-lymphocytes and islet cell surface or proteinimmunoprecipitating (Mr= 64 kilodaltons) autoantibodies: We have shown that the presence of insulin autoantibodies in ICA-positive nondiabetic individuals strongly predicts a poor insulin response to intravenously administered glucose 8 and that ICA-positive nondiabetic individuals have an increased density of HLA-DR on the surface of their B-lymphocytes. 9 In a recent issue of The Journal, Chase et al. 1~ surveyed a high-risk population for the presence of ICAs. Firstdegree relatives with ICAs underwent serial intravenous glucose tolerance testing. Chase et al. concluded that first-phase insulin responses of less than 25 tdU/mL predict the development of IDDM. The Joslin Clinic group had previously reached a similar conclusion on the basis of an insulin response at less than the first percentile of their control population. From the viewpoint of disease prevention, it must be recognized that many of the …