Elevated circulating luteinizing hormone levels are associated with diabetic macroalbuminuria in Chinese men and postmenopausal women: A cross-sectional study
- 1 November 2020
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Journal of Diabetes
- Vol. 12 (11), 819-833
- https://doi.org/10.1111/1753-0407.13073
Abstract
Background Associations between sex hormones and diabetic vascular complications have recently been studied, but the role luteinizing hormone (LH) plays in diabetic kidney disease (DKD) remains uncertain. We aimed to investigate the relationship of LH and DKD in Chinese men and postmenopausal women with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). Methods Data were collected from 1775 T2DM men and postmenopausal women in hospital. The odds ratios (OR) and corresponding 95% confidence intervals (CI) in relation to LH quartiles were obtained by multiple logistic regression analysis. Results LH levels were significantly higher in patients with macroalbuminuria than in those with microalbuminuria, but were not higher in patients with microalbuminuria than in those with normoalbuminuria. Consistently, LH in those with an estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) < 60 mL/min/1.73m(2)were significantly higher than in those with eGFR >= 60 mL/min/1.73m(2). The prevalence of macroalbuminuria was obviously increased for subjects of the fourth quartile of LH vs the first to third quartile (20.4% vs 6.2%, 8.0%, 12.2% in men; 25.3% vs 5.5%, 3.8%, 9.3% in postmenopausal women). Multivariate logistic regression demonstrated that subjects within the highest quartile of LH had higher odds of macroalbuminuria than those within the lowest quartile (OR 4.00, 95% CI, 1.87-8.55 for men; OR 9.62, 95% CI, 3.42-27.08 for postmenopausal women), independent of age, diabetes duration, or other metabolic factors. The area under the curve for detecting macroalbuminuria based on LH was 0.662 for men, and 0.767 for postmenopausal women. Conclusion High LH levels are positively associated with established DKD among Chinese men and postmenopausal women. Elevated LH may be a promising clinical factor for identifying established DKD.This publication has 68 references indexed in Scilit:
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