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Diabetes, Vol 36, Issue 7 829-837, Copyright © 1987 by American Diabetes Association

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Beta-cell function and insulin sensitivity in nondiabetic HLA-identical siblings of insulin-dependent diabetics

C Johnston, P Raghu, DK McCulloch, JC Beard, WK Ward, LJ Klaff, B McKnight, RN Bergman and JP Palmer

Insulin secretion and insulin sensitivity were compared in 12 HLA-identical siblings of insulin-dependent diabetics and nondiabetic controls. Only the maximum acute insulin response to intravenous arginine was lower in the siblings than in the matched controls (P less than .05); other measures of insulin secretion, including the acute insulin response to glucose or arginine, the second-phase insulin response to glucose, and the slope of glucose potentiation, were not significantly different. Insulin sensitivity, derived from an intravenous glucose tolerance test with a minimal-modeling technique, was lower in the siblings (P less than .01). In a large group of nondiabetic controls of various adiposity, insulin secretion and insulin sensitivity were inversely related. In view of the difference in insulin sensitivity between siblings and matched controls, a direct comparison of beta-cell function tests may be inappropriate, and the measures of insulin secretion were compared with those of nondiabetics when adjusted for differences in insulin sensitivity. This analysis revealed that all measures of insulin secretion were significantly lower in the siblings. We conclude that HLA-identical siblings of insulin-dependent diabetics show evidence of both insulin resistance and impaired beta-cell function and that analysis of beta-cell function in relation to insulin sensitivity shows a greater frequency of beta-cell secretory abnormalities than previously appreciated.
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