Estimation of prehepatic insulin secretion: comparison between standardized C-peptide and insulin kinetic models

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• 作者：Andrea Tura^a ; ^{tura@isib.cnr.it} ; Giovanni Pacini^a ; Alexandra Kautzky-Willer^b ; Amalia Gastaldelli^c ; Ralph A. DeFronzo^d ; Ele Ferrannini^c ; ^e ; Andrea Mari^a
• 刊名：Metabolism
• 出版年：2012
• 出版时间：March 2012
• 年：2012
• 卷：61
• 期：3
• 页码：434-443
• 全文大小：484 K

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Our aim was to compare traditional C-peptide-based method and insulin-based method with standardized kinetic parameters in the estimation of prehepatic insulin secretion rate (ISR). One-hundred thirty-four subjects with varying degrees of glucose tolerance received an insulin-modified intravenous glucose tolerance test and a standard oral glucose tolerance test with measurement of plasma insulin and C-peptide. From the intravenous glucose tolerance test, we determined insulin kinetics parameters and selected standardized kinetic parameters based on mean values in a selected subgroup. We computed ISR from insulin concentration during the oral glucose tolerance test using these parameters and compared ISR with the standard C-peptide deconvolution approach. We then performed the same comparison in an independent data set (231 subjects). In the first data set, total ISRs from insulin and C-peptide were highly correlated (R² = 0.75, P < .0001), although on average different (103 ¡À 6 vs 108 ¡À 3 nmol, P < .001). Good correlation was also found in the second data set (R² = 0.54, P < .0001). The insulin method somewhat overestimated total ISR (85 ¡À 5 vs 67 ¡À 3 nmol, P = .002), in part because of differences in insulin assay. Similar results were obtained for fasting ISR. Despite the modest bias, the insulin and C-peptide methods were consistent in predicting differences between groups (eg, obese vs nonobese) and relationships with other physiological variables (eg, body mass index, insulin resistance). The insulin method estimated first-phase ISR peak similarly to the C-peptide method and better than the simple use of insulin concentration. The insulin-based ISR method compares favorably with the C-peptide approach. The method will be particularly useful in data sets lacking C-peptide to assess ¦Â-cell function through models requiring prehepatic secretion.