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© 2005 by the American Diabetes Association, Inc.
Pathophysiology/Complications |
Race-Specific Differences in Antioxidant Enzyme Activity in Patients With Type 2 Diabetes
A potential association with the risk of developing nephropathy
1 Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, Thomas Addison Diabetes Centre, St. George’s Hospital National Health Service (NHS) Trust, London, U.K
2 Department of Medicine, Royal Free & University College Medical School, London, U.K
3 Department of Community Health Science, St. George’s Hospital NHS Trust, London, U.K
Address correspondencereprint requests to Dr. K.A. Earle, St. George’s Hospital NHS Trust, Thomas Addison Diabetes Centre, London SW17 ORE, U.K. E-mail: k.earle{at}sghms.ac.uk
OBJECTIVE—Lipid hydroperoxide, a marker of oxidative stress, is linked to the development of nephropathy and is reportedly higher in patients of African origin compared with Caucasians. This may be relevant to race-specific differences in susceptibility to nephropathy. We investigated whether alterations in antioxidant enzyme activity could account for this biochemical phenotype and examined the relationship with conventional markers of renal disease.
RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS—Two hundred seventeen individuals were studied. Patients with type 2 diabetes (n = 75) of African and Caucasian origin were matched by sex and racial origin with healthy control subjects (n = 142). Plasma total superoxide dismutase (SOD) and glutathione peroxidase (GPx) activity were spectrophotometrically measured, and total cholesterol and triglycerides were measured by enzymatic methods.
RESULTS—SOD activity was higher and GPx activity lower in patients with diabetes than in healthy control subjects (573 ± 515 vs. 267 ± 70 units/l, P < 0.001 and 150 ± 93 vs. 178 ± 90 units/l, P = 0.019, respectively). Patients of African origin with diabetes had lower GPx and higher SOD activity compared with Caucasian patients (126 ± 82 vs. 172 ± 97 units/l, P = 0.03 and 722 ± 590 vs. 445 ± 408 units/l, P = 0.002, respectively). Patients of African origin with normal urinary albumin excretion had significantly higher plasma creatinine concentrations (100.7 ± 14.2 vs. 88.1 ± 14.9 µmol/l, P = 0.007) and lower GPx activity (99.0 ± 72.4 vs. 173.7 ± 107.4 units/l, P = 0.02) compared with those of Caucasian origin. African origin was an independent predictor of elevated SOD (P = 0.007) and reduced GPx activity (P = 0.02) in regression analysis.
CONCLUSIONS—SOD and GPx enzyme activities vary according to race and could account for differences in lipid hydroperoxide. In patients of African origin, susceptibility to renal disease may be associated with lowered GPx activity.
Abbreviations: GPx, glutathione peroxidase • SOD, superoxide dismutase
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