Abstract
Introduction
Oxidative stress plays a central role in the development and progression of vascular complications in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). We have previously shown that markers of glucose variability evaluated by continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) are positively associated with oxidative stress in patients with T2DM. However, the evaluation of the glycemic variability by CGM remains a time- and money-consuming procedure. Therefore, this study investigated the independent correlates of oxidative stress among various other clinical markers routinely measured in primary care.
Methods
This was a retrospective cross-sectional study with 234 T2DM patients to examine which clinical variables, including 1,5-anhydro-D-glucitol (1,5-AG) and glycated albumin (GA), were independently associated with oxidative stress. Oxidative stress was measured using the diacron-reactive oxygen metabolites (d-ROMs) test. The relationships between d–ROMs and clinical factors, such as blood glucose, glycated hemoglobin (HbA1c), 1,5-AG, GA, lipid parameters, and blood pressure, were examined.
Results
Multiple stepwise regression analysis revealed that 1,5-AG (inversely), GA, triglycerides, use of metformin and being female were independently associated with d-ROMs. When patients with T2DM were stratified into two groups with HbA1c < 8.0% and HbA1c ≥ 8.0%, 1,5-AG (inversely), HbA1c, use of metformin and being female were independently associated with d-ROMs in diabetes patients with HbA1c < 8.0%, whereas GA, fasting plasma glucose and being female were independently associated with d-ROMs in patients with HbA1c ≥ 8.0%.
Conclusion
Our present study suggests that 1,5-AG and GA are the strongest correlates of oxidative stress in patients with well and poorly controlled T2DM, respectively.
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Why carry out this study? |
Some studies previously showed that markers of glucose variability evaluated by continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) are positively associated with oxidative stress in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). However, evaluation of the glycemic variability by CGM remains a time- and money-consuming procedure. |
It is probable that 1.5-AG and GA could have additional clinical value for evaluating the glucose variability. |
We investigated the independent correlates of oxidative stress among various clinical markers routinely measured in primary care, including HbA1c, 1.5-AG and GA in patients with T2DM. |
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1,5-AG for well-controlled T2DM patients and GA for poorly controlled T2DM patients are useful in estimating oxidative stress. |
Introduction
Oxidative stress has been shown to play a central role in the development and progression of vascular complications in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) [1, 2]. Since intermittent hyperglycemia has greater triggering effects on oxidative stress generation, subsequently evoking endothelial dysfunction, compared with chronic sustained hyperglycemia [3, 4], glucose variability is considered a risk factor and therapeutic target for vascular complications in T2DM [5, 6]. Indeed, our previous cross-sectional study revealed that markers of glucose variability evaluated by continuous glucose monitoring (CGM), such as mean amplitude of glycemic excursions, are positively associated with oxidative stress in patients with T2DM [7]. Moreover, we have found that improvement in glucose variability is correlated with reduction in oxidative stress levels in patients with T2DM [8]. These observations suggest that assessment of the glucose variability by CGM could help identify high-risk diabetic patients who would benefit from intensive therapy. However, evaluation of the glycemic variability by CGM remains a time- and money-consuming procedure.
Measurement of glycated hemoglobin (HbA1c) is the gold standard method for assessing glycemic control, but HbA1c values do not reflect the glucose variability [9,10,11]. Actually, compared with HbAlc, 1,5-anhydro-D-glucitol (1,5-AG) and glycated albumin (GA) have been associated with postprandial hyperglycemia and could reflect the glucose variability in patients with T2DM [9,10,11]. Since 1,5-AG and GA have also been shown to predict future cardiovascular events in patients with T2DM [12,13,14], it is probable that 1,5-AG and GA could have additional clinical value for evaluating the glucose variability. Therefore, in this study, we investigated the independent correlates of oxidative stress among various clinical markers routinely measured in primary care, including HbA1c, 1,5-AG and GA, in patients with T2DM.
Methods
Subjects and Ethics
This retrospective cross-sectional study included 234 outpatients aged > 20 years who visited the Showa University Hospital from October 2013 to December 2018 for the treatment of T2DM. T2DM was defined according to the Japan Diabetes Society [15]. We included patients in whom oxidative stress, HbA1c, 1.5-AG and GA levels were measured and patients with diet therapy or stable oral hypoglycemic and/or insulin treatment for ≥ 3 months before the measurement of oxidative stress levels. Informed consents were obtained from all the patients. We excluded any patients who were using steroids or anti-inflammatory drugs; patients with diabetic ketosis and coma within 3 months before the study; patients with severe infection or trauma, malignancy, an estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) < 30 ml/min/1.73 m2 according to the Cockcroft-Gault formula [16] and severe liver dysfunction; and patients treated with the inhibitors of sodium-glucose co-transporter 2 and acarbose as well as pre- and post-surgery patients and pregnant women. This study complies with the principles laid out in the Declaration of Helsinki of 1964 and its later amendments. The study protocol was approved by the ethics committee of the Showa University School of Medicine (no. 2839). This study used an opt-out method, as shown on our hospital website and the poster at the Showa University Hospital, and subjects could opt out of the study at any time.
Clinical and Biochemical Analysis
The following clinical and laboratory parameters were measured on the morning after a minimum 8 h of fasting, as described previously [17]: body mass index (BMI), low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C), high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C), triglycerides (TG), eGFR, blood pressure, fasting plasma glucose (FPG), HbA1c, GA and 1,5-AG. Plasma oxidant capacity against N,N-diethyl paraphenylenediamine was also measured using the d-ROMs test. Clinical data (age, sex, smoking status, duration of diabetes, diabetes therapy and antihypertensive/lipid-lowering drugs) were retrieved from medical records.
Laboratory Measurements
Oxidative stress was measured using the d-ROMs test (F.R.E.E. System, imported by LTD Tokyo from Diacron International s.r.l. Grosseto, Italy) as previously described [18, 19]. In accordance with the Wismerll kinetic procedure, the change in absorbance per minute was expressed as arbitrary units after correction (U.CARR, where 1 U.CARR = the oxidant capacity of a 0.08 mg/dl H2O2 solution; normal range = 250–300 U.CARR). Intra- and inter-assay coefficients of variation were 2.1% and 3.1%, respectively. Serum total cholesterol, LDL-C, HDL-C, TG and creatinine levels were measured using an automated analyzer (BM6070; Japan Electron Optics Laboratory, Tokyo, Japan). Plasma glucose was measured using the glucose oxidase method, and HbA1c was measured using high-performance liquid chromatography [20]. The 1,5-anhydro-D-glucitol level was measured by a colorimetric method (Nippon Kayaku, Tokyo, Japan). Serum GA level was measured by an enzymatic method using a Lucica GA-L kit (Asahi Kasei Pharma Corp., Tokyo, Japan).
Statistical Analysis
Data are presented as mean ± standard deviation (SD). Simple linear correlations were calculated by determining the Spearman’s correlation coefficient. Multiple stepwise regression analysis was then performed with d-ROMs as a dependent variable. Independent variables included sex (female), age, duration of diabetes, BMI, smoking status (current), use of insulin, glucose-like peptide-1 receptor agonists, dipeptidyl peptidase-4 inhibitors, sulfonylureas, α-glucosidase inhibitors, metformin, thiazolidine, statins, angiotensin II receptor blockers, eGFR, FPG, HbA1c, 1,5-AG, GA, GA/HbA1c ratio, HDL-C, LDL-C, TG, systolic blood pressure and diastolic blood pressure. Analyses were performed using SPSS version 22 for Windows (IBM Corp., Armonk, NY, USA), with p < 0.05 indicating statistical significance.
Results
Clinical Characteristics
The baseline clinical characteristics of the 234 patients are shown in Table 1. The 234 participants had a mean age of 63.6 ± 12.5 years, had an HbA1c level of 7.8 ± 1.4% and had had diabetes for a duration of 12.7 ± 10.3 years. The study group included more men (n = 149) than women (n = 85), and, on average, the participants were slightly overweight (BMI = 25.9 ± 5.1).
Relationship of d-Roms With Markers of Diabetic Control and Non-Glycemic Metabolic Variables
Table 2 shows the correlations between glucose metabolic variables and d-ROMs by univariate analysis. In all patients, significant correlations were observed between d-ROMs and LDL-C (r = 0.167; p = 0.010), TG (r = 0.194; p = 0.003), FPG (r = 0.235; p < 0.001), HbA1c (r = 0.416; p < 0.001), 1,5-AG (r = − 0.438; p < 0.001) and GA (r = 0.352; p = 0.001). In patients with HbA1c < 8%, significant correlations were observed between d-ROMs and TG (r = 0.172; p = 0.040), HbA1c (r = 0.421; p < 0.001) and 1,5-AG (r = − 0.515; p < 0.001). In patients with HbA1c ≥ 8%, significant correlations were observed between d-ROMs and FPG (r = 0.325; p = 0.002), HbA1c (r = 0.252; p = 0.015), GA (r = 0.458; p < 0.001) and the GA/HbA1c ratio (r = 0.343; p = 0.001).
A multivariate stepwise regression model was used to analyze the independent factors that affect oxidative stress (Table 3). In all patients, 1,5-AG, sex, GA, TG and use of metformin were independently correlated with d-ROMs (R2 = 0.313). Furthermore, we stratified diabetic patients into two groups according to their HbA1c value. In patients with HbA1c < 8%, 1,5-AG and sex were independently correlated with d-ROMs (R2 = 0.272). In patients with HbA1c ≥ 8%, GA, sex and FPG were independently correlated with d-ROMs (R2 = 0.283).
Discussion
To the best of our knowledge, no previous studies have investigated the association between oxidative stress and various glycemic markers, including fasting plasma glucose, HbA1c, 1,5-AG and GA, simultaneously in patients with T2DM. The present study demonstrated that oxidative stress is associated with 1,5-AG and GA in patients with T2DM. In addition, the present study demonstrated that oxidative stress is associated with 1,5-AG for good glycemic control and GA for poor glycemic control in patients with T2DM. Furthermore, this study shows that the use of metformin results in a reduction of oxidative stress. Our findings may help reduce oxidative stress in the clinical management of T2DM in the absence of CGM.
In this study, we evaluated the level of d-ROMs as a surrogate marker of oxidative stress for patients with T2DM. D-ROMs are more often detected in female patients than in males [21]. The d-ROMs are mainly composed of organic hydroperoxide; despite hydroperoxide’s moderate oxidative power, its serum levels are detectable because of its relative stability compared with other free radicals. Not only is the d-ROMs test quick and inexpensive to use in clinical settings [18], but it is also predictive of morbidity and mortality [22, 23]. Recently, Yang et al. reported that d-ROMs predict future cardiovascular events in both diabetic and non-diabetic patients [24]. Therefore, d-ROMs are considered to be reliable markers of oxidative stress.
The present study demonstrates that not only HbA1c but also 1,5-AG, GA and the GA/HbA1c ratio are associated with oxidative stress in patients with T2DM. While the relationship between oxidative stress and HbA1c has been reported previously [25], our results suggest that 1,5-AG, GA and the GA/HbA1c ratio reflect glucose variability and are thereby associated with oxidative stress. However, Monnier et al. reported that the contribution of fasting plasma glucose and postprandial plasma glucose differed depending on glycemic control [26]. In addition, Monnier et al. reported the contribution of the postprandial glucose level to HbA1c values at levels < 7.5–8.0% [27]. Actually, 1,5-AG has been reported to be related to glucose variability in patients with well-controlled T2DM [9], while GA has been reported to be related to glucose variability in patients with poorly controlled T2DM [28]. Therefore, we divided the patients into two groups: those with HbA1c < 8% and those with HbA1c ≥ 8%.
The present study demonstrated the relationship between oxidative stress and 1,5-AG in patients with HbA1c < 8.0% by multivariate analysis. This result may depend on the characteristics of 1,5-AG. As excretion of glucose into the urine increases, reabsorption of 1,5-AG is inhibited competitively, and the blood level of 1,5-AG decreases. Therefore, low levels of 1,5-AG in the blood are considered a clinical marker of postprandial hyperglycemia [29]. We have demonstrated that the 1,5-AG blood level correlates with postprandial hyperglycemia in patients with HbA1c < 8.0% in T2DM [30]. The use of CGM has demonstrated a significant correlation with the mean amplitude of glycemic excursions and indices of postprandial hyperglycemia in patients with HbA1c < 8.0% [31]. In support of our findings, 1,5-AG is reported to be a useful marker for vascular endothelial dysfunction in patients with HbA1c < 8.0% [12]. It has also been reported that low 1,5-AG levels were associated with the severity of coronary artery calcification in patients with HbA1c < 7.0% [32]. On the other hand, d-ROMs did not correlate with 1,5-AG in patients with HbA1c > 8%. This was due to the contribution of basal hyperglycemia, which becomes significant when HbA1c exceeds 8.4% [26]. In addition, considering the effects of hyperglycemia on the reabsorption of 1,5-AG in the kidney, it is highly probable that a threshold exists in the reabsorption process. Therefore, 1,5-AG in patients with HbA1c > 8% may not reflect postprandial plasma glucose or glucose variability. From the above, oxidative stress, evaluated by d-ROMs, correlated strongly with 1,5-AG, suggesting the 1,5-AG level is a potentially useful predictor of oxidative stress, as well as a marker of glucose variability, in T2DM patients with HbA1c < 8%.
Unlike the association between 1,5-AG and oxidative stress, GA and oxidative stress were associated with HbA1c ≥ 8% in the multivariate analysis of this study. GA, an early Amadori-type glycation protein of the nonenzymatic glycation reaction between glucose and serum albumin, is an index that reflects the average glucose level over the previous 2–3 weeks. GA is not only an indicator of intermediate glycemic control but also reflects glucose variability as well as the mean plasma glucose level [33]. In addition, the GA/HbA1c ratio is reported to be an indicator that reflects glucose variability [34]. Actually, it reported that GA correlates with diabetic complications such as retinopathy progression [35], neuropathy [36] and cardiovascular disease [37, 38], and the GA/HbA1c ratio correlates with cognitive impairment [39]. In this study, GA was associated with oxidative stress in patients with HbA1c ≥ 8% by multivariate analysis. In support of our results, Suwa et al. demonstrated that GA is an indicator that has a closer relationship with glucose variability compared with HbA1c and 1,5-AG in patients with poorly controlled T2DM [28]. However, the GA/HbA1c ratio was not associated with oxidative stress in patients with HbA1c ≥ 8%. Glucose variability has been reported to increase with a GA/HbA1c ratio > 2.8 [34], but the patients in our study had a mean GA/HbA1c ratio of 2.6, which may have contributed to this result. On the other hand, FPG was also associated with oxidative stress in patients with HbA1c > 8%. This result is considered to be due to the fact that the contribution of FPG increases the HbA1c at levels > 7.5–8%. It has been reported that elevated FPG induces oxidative stress and interferes with normal endothelial function via ROS overproduction [40]. From the above, it is suggested that GA is a good marker for oxidative stress because FPG contributes to oxidative stress as well as glucose variability when glycemic control is poor.
Several studies have reported on the relationship between metformin and oxidative stress [41, 42]. There are a variety of mechanisms by which metformin reduces oxidative stress. Metformin reduces ROS formation, suggesting a diminishing effect of oxidative stress [41, 43]. It has been reported that, in aortic endothelial cells, the activation of AMPK by metformin limits the endothelial cell damage caused by oxidative stress under hyperglycemic conditions through the inhibition of the protein kinase C-NAD(P)H oxidase pathway [44]. Furthermore, metformin may partially protect against oxidative stress through regulation of serum insulin levels [45]. Metformin was shown to lower the risk of diabetes-related complications, cardiovascular disease, stroke, and all-cause mortality in the UKPDS study [46].
Although the relationship between LDL-C and oxidative stress has been reported previously [7, 47], there are no reports about the relationship between TG and oxidative stress. In this study, we have demonstrated that TG is associated with oxidative stress by multivariate analysis. Previous epidemiologic studies have reported that hypertriglyceridemia is an independent risk factor for cardiovascular disease [48, 49]. In addition, it has been reported that not only high LDL-C but also hypertriglyceridemia is a risk factor for cardiovascular disease in Japanese patients with T2DM [50]. However, the mechanism by which hypertriglyceridemia induces oxidative stress remains unclear. It may be related to insulin resistance, but further research is needed to elucidate this mechanism.
The present study had several limitations. First, the determination coefficient of the independent variable was low for the model employed in this study, with the adjusted R2 value being approximately 0.3 in the multivariate analysis. The sample size was relatively small; therefore, the obtained results require further confirmation in a large number of patients. Second, this study was cross-sectional, precluding the evaluation of any cause-effect relationship between glucose metabolism, 1,5-AG, GA and oxidative stress. Whether intervention aimed at reducing glucose metabolism via 1,5-AG and GA should be administered needs further examination.
Conclusion
In conclusion, 1,5-AG and GA are useful markers for estimating oxidative stress in patients with well and poorly controlled T2DM, respectively.
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We thank the participants of the study. Furthermore, we thank Chihiro Imoto, Misaki Hirakawa, Sachiko Sakurai, Sachiyo Mitani, Tomomi Horikawa and Yasue Moroto of the Showa University School of Medicine for their clinical support.
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This work was supported in part by Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research (grant no. 17K08968) (SY) from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology of Japan. The study sponsor is not funding the journal’s Rapid Service Service fee; this was funded by the authors.
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MO and SY contributed to the study design, data acquisition, and data analysis and wrote the manuscript. KY, HN, TF, NO, SG, AF, HK, MH, MT, YM, TF, MO, TS, and TH interpreted data and critically revised the manuscript. All authors have read and approved the final version of the manuscript.
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The authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: S. Yamagishi received lecture fees from Ono Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., Sanofi K.K., Lilly, and Boehringer Ingelheim. The other authors (Yo Kohata, Makoto Ohara, Hiroe Nagaike, Tomoki Fujikawa, Naoya Osaka, Satoshi Goto, Ayako Fukase, Hideki Kushima, Munenori Hiromura, Michishige Terasaki, Yusaku Mori, Tomoyasu Fukui, Motoshi Ouchi, Tatsuya Suzuki, Tsutomu Hirano) have nothing to disclose.
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The study protocol was approved by the ethics committee of Showa University School of Medicine (no. 2839). All patients provided informed consent according to the provisions of the Declaration of Helsinki of 1964 and its later amendments. This study used an opt-out method, as shown on our hospital website and the poster at the Showa University Hospital, and subjects could opt out of the study at any time.
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Kohata, Y., Ohara, M., Nagaike, H. et al. Association of Hemoglobin A1c, 1,5-Anhydro-d-Glucitol and Glycated Albumin with Oxidative Stress in Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus Patients: A Cross-Sectional Study. Diabetes Ther 11, 655–665 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13300-020-00772-7
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