Effect of exenatide, sitagliptin, or glimepiride on ?-cell secretory capacity in early type 2 diabetes.
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ABSTRACT: Agents that augment GLP-1 effects enhance glucose-dependent ?-cell insulin production and secretion and thus are hoped to prevent progressive impairment in insulin secretion characteristic of type 2 diabetes (T2D). The purpose of this study was to evaluate GLP-1 effects on ?-cell secretory capacity, an in vivo measure of functional ?-cell mass, early in the course of T2D.We conducted a randomized controlled trial in 40 subjects with early T2D who received the GLP-1 analog exenatide (n = 14), the dipeptidyl peptidase IV inhibitor sitagliptin (n = 12), or the sulfonylurea glimepiride (n = 14) as an active comparator insulin secretagogue for 6 months. Acute insulin responses to arginine (AIRarg) were measured at baseline and after 6 months of treatment with 5 days of drug washout under fasting, 230 mg/dL (glucose potentiation of arginine-induced insulin release [AIRpot]), and 340 mg/dL (maximum arginine-induced insulin release [AIRmax]) hyperglycemic clamp conditions, in which AIRmax provides the ?-cell secretory capacity.The change in AIRpot was significantly greater with glimepiride versus exenatide treatment (P < 0.05), and a similar trend was notable for the change in AIRmax (P = 0.1). Within each group, the primary outcome measure, AIRmax, was unchanged after 6 months of treatment with exenatide or sitagliptin compared with baseline but was increased with glimepiride (P < 0.05). ?-Cell glucagon secretion (AGRmin) was also increased with glimepiride treatment (P < 0.05), and the change in AGRmin trended higher with glimepiride than with exenatide (P = 0.06).After 6 months of treatment, exenatide or sitagliptin had no significant effect on functional ?-cell mass as measured by ?-cell secretory capacity, whereas glimepiride appeared to enhance ?- and ?-cell secretion.
SUBMITTER: Gudipaty L
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4140159 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
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