Hyperglycemia and insulin function in antiretroviral treatment-naive HIV patients in Ethiopia: A potential new entity of diabetes in HIV?

Daniel Faurholt-Jepsen; Mette Frahm Olsen; Anna Birkmose Andersen; Pernille Kæstel; Alemseged Abdissa; Hiwot Amare; Daniel Yilma; Tsinuel Girma; Markos Tesfaye; Åse Bengård Andersen; Henrik Friis; Marit Eika Jørgensen

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Hyperglycemia and insulin function in antiretroviral treatment-naive HIV patients in Ethiopia: A potential new entity of diabetes in HIV?

Daniel Faurholt-Jepsen^*, Mette Frahm Olsen, Anna Birkmose Andersen, Pernille Kæstel, Alemseged Abdissa, Hiwot Amare, Daniel Yilma, Tsinuel Girma, Markos Tesfaye, Åse Bengård Andersen, Henrik Friis, Marit Eika Jørgensen

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Background:Although diabetes is more common in HIV patients, the direct link between HIV and diabetes is unknown. Glucose abnormalities should be assessed among antiretroviral treatment (ART)-naive patients to reduce confounding by ART. We assessed diabetes status, insulin function and association with inflammation among Ethiopian ART-naive HIV patients.Methods:Among HIV patients initiating ART, we used glycosylated hemoglobin (HbA1c) and oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT) to define prediabetes and diabetes. Insulin during OGTT was determined to calculate insulin function, and C-reactive protein and 1-acid glycoprotein were used as same-day markers of inflammation.Results:Among 332 HIV patients, mean (SD) age was 32.9 (8.8) years, and 222 (66.9%) were women. None had known diabetes, but we found diabetes prevalence using OGTT and HbA1c to be 7.6 and 8.5%, respectively. C-reactive protein and 1-acid glycoprotein were positively associated with hyperglycemia and insulin deficiency, but not insulin resistance. We found poor correlation between traditional risk factors (age and anthropometry) and diabetes, but participants generally had low BMI and waist circumference.Conclusion:ART-naive Ethiopian HIV patients had a high prevalence of prediabetes and diabetes, with a poor agreement between HbA1c and OGTT. Diabetes was associated with inflammation, but not with adiposity and age. Diabetes was linked to insulin deficiency, rather than insulin resistance, which may represent a different entity than type 1 and 2 diabetes. This has implications for choice of drugs, when managing diabetes in African HIV patients.

Original language	English
Journal	AIDS (Year)
Volume	33
Issue number	10
Pages (from-to)	1595-1602
Number of pages	8
ISSN	1350-2840
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1097/QAD.0000000000002249
Publication status	Published - 1 Aug 2019

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Faculty of Science
Diabetes
Glycosylated hemoglobin
HIV
Insulin deficiency
Insulin resistance
Opportunistic infection

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Faurholt-Jepsen, D., Olsen, M. F., Andersen, A. B., Kæstel, P., Abdissa, A., Amare, H., Yilma, D., Girma, T., Tesfaye, M., Andersen, Å. B., Friis, H., & Jørgensen, M. E. (2019). Hyperglycemia and insulin function in antiretroviral treatment-naive HIV patients in Ethiopia: A potential new entity of diabetes in HIV? AIDS (Year), 33(10), 1595-1602. https://doi.org/10.1097/QAD.0000000000002249

Faurholt-Jepsen, D, Olsen, MF, Andersen, AB, Kæstel, P, Abdissa, A, Amare, H, Yilma, D, Girma, T, Tesfaye, M, Andersen, ÅB, Friis, H & Jørgensen, ME 2019, 'Hyperglycemia and insulin function in antiretroviral treatment-naive HIV patients in Ethiopia: A potential new entity of diabetes in HIV?', AIDS (Year), vol. 33, no. 10, pp. 1595-1602. https://doi.org/10.1097/QAD.0000000000002249

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Hyperglycemia and insulin function in antiretroviral treatment-naive HIV patients in Ethiopia: A potential new entity of diabetes in HIV?

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