title: The effects of rosiglitazone on inflammatory biomarkers and adipokines in diabetic, hypertensive patients.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To compare the effects of a 12-week treatment course of a rosiglitazone-based versus a metformin- or glyburide-based strategy on inflammatory biomarkers and adipokine levels in hypertensive, type 2 diabetes patients.
  
  
  METHODS
  One hundred three treatment-naive patients or patients on monotherapy with either metformin or glyburide, and a hemoglobin A1C (A1C) ≥7.5%, were randomly assigned to either rosiglitazone add-on (4 mg/day ± titration to 8 mg/day) or a combination of metformin (250 mg twice per day [BID] titrated to 500 BID if A1C ≥7.5% and ≤8.0%; 500 mg BID titrated to 1 g BID if A1C >8.0%) and glyburide (2.5 mg BID titrated to 5 mg BID if A1C ≥7.5% and ≤8.0%; 5 mg BID titrated to 10 mg BID if A1C >8.0%).
  
  
  RESULTS
  Rosiglitazone add-on produced significantly greater reductions in high-sensitivity C-reactive protein (2.1 mg/L to 0.9 mg/L) and increases in adiponectin (8.7 mg/mL to 14.8 mg/mL) levels compared with metformin/glyburide (both P<0.005). At close-out, all patients had improved fasting plasma glucose and A1C levels (8.5% to 7.4% and 8.8% to 7.1% for rosiglitazone add-on and metformin-glyburide, respectively [P<0.001 for both arms]) relative to the corresponding baseline values.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The present study demonstrated that in hypertensive, diabetic subjects, a rosiglitazone-based treatment strategy results in favourable changes in inflammatory biomarkers compared with metformin/glyburide.
authors.affiliation: Division of Cardiology, William Osler Health System, Toronto; ; Department of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton; ; Division of Cardiac Surgery, Keenan Research Centre in the Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute of St Michael's Hospital, Toronto; ; Canadian Cardiovascular Research Network, Brampton, Ontario.
authors.forename: Milan
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Gupta
authors.forename: Hwee
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Teoh
authors.forename: Mahesh
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kajil
authors.forename: Michelle
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Tsigoulis
authors.forename: Adrian
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Quan
authors.forename: Manoela Fb
authors.initials: MF
authors.lastname: Braga
authors.forename: Subodh
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Verma
keywords: Adipokines; Antihyperglycemic agents; Diabetes; Hypertension; Inflammatory biomarkers