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Lipoprotein(a) and incident type-2 diabetes: results from the prospective Bruneck study and a meta-analysis of published literature.

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posted on 2018-08-09, 13:54 authored by Ellie Paige, Katya L. Masconi, Sotirios Tsimikas, Florian Kronenberg, Peter Santer, Siegfried Weger, Johann Willeit, Stefan Kiechl, Peter Willeit
AIMS: We aimed to (1) assess the association between lipoprotein(a) [Lp(a)] concentration and incident type-2 diabetes in the Bruneck study, a prospective population-based study, and (2) combine findings with evidence from published studies in a literature-based meta-analysis. METHODS: We used Cox proportional hazards models to calculate hazard ratios (HR) for incident type-2 diabetes over 20 years of follow-up in 815 participants of the Bruneck study according to their long-term average Lp(a) concentration. For the meta-analysis, we searched Medline, Embase and Web of Science for relevant prospective cohort studies published up to October 2016. RESULTS: In the Bruneck study, there was a 12% higher risk of type-2 diabetes for a one standard deviation lower concentration of log Lp(a) (HR = 1.12 [95% CI 0.95-1.32]; P = 0.171), after adjustment for age, sex, alcohol consumption, body mass index, smoking status, socioeconomic status, physical activity, systolic blood pressure, HDL cholesterol, log high-sensitivity C-reactive protein and waist-hip ratio. In a meta-analysis involving four prospective cohorts with a total of 74,575 participants and 4514 incident events, the risk of type-2 diabetes was higher in the lowest two quintiles of Lp(a) concentrations (weighted mean Lp(a) = 3.3 and 7.0 mg/dL, respectively) compared to the highest quintile (62.9 mg/dL), with the highest risk of type-2 diabetes seen in quintile 1 (HR = 1.28 [1.14-1.43]; P < 0.001). CONCLUSIONS: The current available evidence from prospective studies suggests that there is an inverse association between Lp(a) concentration and risk of type-2 diabetes, with a higher risk of type-2 diabetes at low Lp(a) concentrations (approximately <7 mg/dL).

Funding

The Bruneck Study was supported by the ‘Pustertaler Verein zur Prävention von Herz- und Hirngefaesserkrankungen, Gesundheitsbezirk Bruneck’ and the ‘Assessorat für Gesundheit’, Province of Bolzano, Italy, and an excellence initiative (Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies-COMET) of the Austrian Research Promotion Agency FFG: “Research Center of Excellence in Vascular Ageing—Tyrol, VASCage” (K-Project Number 843536). Peter Willeit was supported by an Erwin-Schrödinger-Fellowship sponsored by the Austrian Science Fund (J-3679-B13).

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Cardiovascular Diabetology, 2017, 16:38

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Cardiovascular Diabetology

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BioMed Central, Springer Verlag

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1475-2840

Acceptance date

2017-03-11

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2017

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2018-08-09

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https://cardiab.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12933-017-0520-z

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The datasets generated and/or analysed during the current study are not publicly available due local data protection regulations but are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request, accreditation as approved researcher by the local data sharing committee, and signing of a data sharing agreement.

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