Extreme Phenotypes to Identify the Patients With Type 2 Diabetes Who Are Susceptible or Resistant to Complications and to Reveal the Mechanisms
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 进行中（未招募）
- 入组人数
- 1,000
- 试验地点
- 3
- 主要终点
- Incidence of Diabetes Related Complications.
研究概览
简要总结
The goal of this observational study is to learn more about the diverse susceptibility to micro and macrovascular complications in individuals living with Type 2 Diabetes (T2D).
The main questions of the study are:
- Is the chronic exposure to hyperglycemia the only determinant of diverse susceptibility to diabetes related complications (DRC) across the T2D population?
- Is it possible to develop a reliable tool to identify patients at different susceptibility to DRC?
- Is it possible to predict DRC susceptibility through biomarkers in the field of inflammation, hormonal signaling or non-coding circulating nucleotides.
People living with T2D and well screened for complications according to the international recommendations (American Diabetes Association/European Society for the study of Diabetes) will be included in the survey collecting information about chronic exposure to hyperglycemia (diabetes duration + glycemic control) and incidence and severity of each macro and microvascular complication.
Based on the survey result, a clinical score will be proposed to distinguish patient at different susceptibility to complications.
Then, patients with extreme phenotypes of susceptibility (i.e. those with highest susceptibility for their short exposure to hyperglycemia vs those with lowest susceptibility to complication for their long exposure to hyperglycemia) will be recruited to perform a blood drawn and investigate whether preidentified potential biomarkers could describe the diverse susceptibility to DRC by showing a significant gradient between groups.
详细描述
The incidence of diabetes related complications (DRC) in individuals living with type 2 diabetes (T2D) is known to depend on exposure to disease and risk factor control, but it displays a large interindividual variability. In this observational trial we will explore the feasibility to develop a method to estimate the degree of susceptibility to DRC in any single patient living with T2D, based on a standardized clinical assessment.
The study will consist in a systematic review of the clinical records of patients with T2D, referring 4 different diabetes clinics in Italy and Greece, who undergo a regular follow up and a complete assessment for DRC pertaining to 3 major macrovascular (coronary, cerebrovascular and peripheral) and 3 major microvascular (retina, kidney and peripheral nerves) districts. The diseases will be classified as a overt or subclinical in relation to their clinical significance. The clinical criteria for the classification will be standardized across the centers.
The final population (target= 1000 patients) will be then used to test the ability of a score (DRC score) to categorize each individual in a specific subgroup for DRC burden, that reflects the DRC susceptibility.
The DRC score has been designed by a consensus of expert, and calculated as the sum of each overt (3 points) and subclinical (1 point) micro- and macrovascular complication.
By applying the DRC score to the general T2D population referring to the study centers, we expect to select 120 subject with high susceptibility to complications (HS-DRC) and 120 subject with low susceptibility to complications (LS-DRC). These subject will undergo a blood drawn and full characterization of risk factors to test the ability of these biomarkers in predicting complications occurrence, when compared with a control population of T2D patients with moderate susceptibility to complications.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Observational
- 观察模型
- Cohort
- 时间视角
- Retrospective
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 40 Years 至 80 Years（Adult, Older Adult）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 否
入选标准
- •Type 2 Diabetes
- •Age 40-80 years old
- •Comprehensive screening for DRC within 24 months from the inclusion in the survey.
排除标准
- •Diagnosis of forms of diabetes other than T2D
- •Any chronic inflammatory diseases or active cancer
- •Significant liver disfunction (cirrhosis, AST/ALT > 3-fold normality range, total bilirubin > 1,5-fold normal range w/o Gilbert syndrome)
- •Any other life expectancy-changing systemic disease.
结局指标
主要结局
Incidence of Diabetes Related Complications.
时间窗: through study completion, an average of 12 months
to measure the incidence and intensity of each included micro and macrovascular complication
次要结局
- DRC score(Through study completion, an average of 12 months)
- Biomarkers(through study completion, an average of 12 months)
研究者
Andrea Natali
Prof.
Azienda Ospedaliero, Universitaria Pisana