title: [Increase of serum gamma-glutamyl transferase activity in diabetic patients is not linked to diabetes itself].
abstract: In order to assess the relationship between increase of gamma-glutamyl transferase and diabetes, we measured serum gamma-glutamyl transferase in 48 male and 43 female insulin-dependent diabetics aged 20-60 years, 49 male and 41 female non insulin dependent diabetics aged 30-60 years, and in 114 male and 124 female controls (blood donors) aged 20-60 years. A1C haemoglobin was assayed in 124 diabetics. There is no increase of serum gamma-glutamyl transferase activity in insulin dependent diabetics of both sexes when compared with the controls. There is an increase of serum gamma-glutamyl transferase activity in non insulin dependent diabetics when compared either with controls (men p less than 0.02, women p less than 0.02) or with insulin dependent diabetics (men p less than 0.05, women p less than 0.02). There is no correlation between serum gamma-glutamyl transferase activity and fasting blood sugar (148 diabetics). In non insulin dependent diabetics of both sexes there is no correlation between A1C haemoglobin and serum gamma-glutamyl transferase activity. These results suggest that the increase observed in diabetics is not caused by diabetes itself, ie, by hyperglycemia, but by diabetes associated pathologies.
authors.affiliation: Service d'Hépatogastroentérologie, CHRU Trousseau, Tours, France.
authors.forename: J P
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Barbieux
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Bacq
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Schellenberg
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Weill
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Constans
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Lamisse
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D016022:Case-Control Studies; D003922:Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1 / Q000201:enzymology*; D003924:Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 / Q000201:enzymology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D005723:gamma-Glutamyltransferase / Q000097:blood* / Q000378:metabolism
chemical_list: D005723:gamma-Glutamyltransferase
vernacular_title: L'augmentation de l'activité sérique de la gamma-glutamyl transférase observée chez les patients diabétiques n'est pas liée au diabète lui-même.