Prevalence of Autoantibody-Negative Diabetes Is Not Rare at All Ages and Increases with Older Age and Obesity
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- 1 January 2007
- journal article
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- Published by The Endocrine Society in Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism
- Vol. 92 (1), 88-92
- https://doi.org/10.1210/jc.2006-1494
Abstract
Objective: A significant percentage of nonautoimmune forms of diabetes presents among children in all age groups, with a remarkable increase with age. Design: From October 1992 to October 2004, a total of 859 children less than 18 yr of age were newly diagnosed with diabetes at the Barbara Davis Center for Childhood Diabetes and had blood samples obtained within 2 wk of disease onset for analysis of antiislet autoantibodies to glutamic acid decarboxylase-65, insulinoma-associated antigen-2, insulin, and islet cell autoantibodies. The relationship of autoantibody positivity with human leukocyte antigen (HLA) class II, body mass index (BMI), glycosylated hemoglobin, age, and ethnicity was analyzed. Results: Overall 19% (159 of 859) of these children with newly diagnosed diabetes were negative for all autoantibodies, and autoantibody negativity was significantly increased with age (P < 0.01). The Hispanic and Black subjects had significantly increased autoantibody negativity among older children with higher BMI than White subjects. The patients with the highest risk HLA genotype, DR3-DQ2/DR4-DQ8, were significantly less autoantibody negative (P = 0.001), whereas the HLA-protective allele, DQB1*0602, was significantly increased among the autoantibody-negative patients (P < 0.0001). Insulin autoantibodies were dramatically age dependent and were inversely correlated with age in both prevalence (P < 0.0001) and levels (P < 0.0001). Autoantibody positivity was inversely correlated with both BMI and age using multivariate analysis (P < 0.0001 and P = 0.0078, respectively). Conclusions: A significant percentage of children newly diagnosed with diabetes are negative for all antiislet autoantibodies with a marked increase in obesity-associated autoantibody-negative diabetes after age 10, suggesting diabetes heterogeneity at all ages.Keywords
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