Abstract
OBJECTIVE: Little data exist describing the change over time in islet function and glycemic control in patients with chronic pancreatitis (CP).
METHODS: In 325 CP patients who underwent 2 mixed meal tolerance tests and/or glycated hemoglobin (HbA1c) levels, we estimated the rate of change in metabolic measures per 6 months and assessed the association between potential risk factors for diabetes and rate of change using multivariate regression models.
RESULTS: Per 6-month time, HbA1c increased by 0.062% with a standard error of 0.029% (P = 0.037) and the ratio (area under the curve (AUC) C-peptide to AUC glucose from mixed meal tolerance testing) decreased by 0.0028 with a standard error of 0.0011 (P = 0.014). We observed more rapid decline in smokers (AUC C-peptide, P = 0.043) and patients with surgical drainage (AUC glucose, P = 0.001; ratio, P = 0.03) or with calcific pancreatitis (HbA1c, P = 0.003). In multivariate models, AUC C-peptide and ratio declined at a greater rate in smokers and HbA1c in those with pancreatic calcifications (both P < 0.05).
CONCLUSIONS: We observed a measurable decline in β-cell function and glycemic control in patients with CP. Patients with a history of tobacco smoking, surgical drainage, or pancreatic calcification may be at highest risk.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 1160-1166 |
Number of pages | 7 |
Journal | Pancreas |
Volume | 48 |
Issue number | 9 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Oct 1 2019 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:From the *Department of Surgery, University of Minnesota Medical School; †Division of Biostatistics, University of Minnesota; and Departments ‡Medicine, and §Pediatrics, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, MN. Received for publication April 8, 2019; accepted August 13, 2019. Address correspondence to: Melena D. Bellin, MD, University of Minnesota Masonic Children's Hospital, E Bldg Rm MB-671, 2450 Riverside Ave S, Minneapolis, MN 55454 (e‐mail: bell0130@umn.edu). M.B. receives research support from ViaCyte and Dexcom and has served on the medical advisory boards for ARIEL Precision Medicine and NovoNordisk. M.D.B., J.S.H., and Y.Y. are supported by NIH (R01 - DK109124). The other authors declare no conflict of interest. Copyright © 2019 Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc. All rights reserved. DOI: 10.1097/MPA.0000000000001394
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Keywords
- diabetes
- insulin
- islet
- mixed meal
- pancreatitis
PubMed: MeSH publication types
- Journal Article