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Trial reportDiabetes2008

Correction of HDL dysfunction in individuals with diabetes and the haptoglobin 2-2 genotype.

Rabea Asleh, Shany Blum, Shiri Kalet-Litman, Jonia Alshiek, Rachel Miller-Lotan, Roy Asaf, Wasseem Rock, Michael Aviram, Uzi Milman, Chen Shapira and 2 more

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Trial report in Diabetes, 2008. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 72 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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72citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

72 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 136 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

12 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Rabea AslehDepartment of Anatomy and Cell Biology, Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel.
Shany Blum
Shiri Kalet-Litman
Jonia Alshiek
Rachel Miller-Lotan
Roy Asaf
Wasseem Rock
Michael Aviram
Uzi Milman
Chen Shapira
Zaid Abassi
Andrew P Levy
Technion – Israel Institute of Technology · ILRambam Health Care Campus · ILCarmel Medical Center · IL

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

objectivePharmacogenomics is a key component of personalized medicine. The Israel Cardiovascular Events Reduction with Vitamin E Study, a prospective placebo-controlled study, recently demonstrated that vitamin E could dramatically reduce CVD in individuals with diabetes and the haptoglobin (Hp) 2-2 genotype (40% of diabetic individuals). However, because of the large number of clinical trials that failed to demonstrate benefit from vitamin E coupled with the lack of a mechanistic explanation for why vitamin E should be beneficial only in diabetic individuals with the Hp 2-2 genotype, enthusiasm for this pharmacogenomic paradigm has been limited. In this study, we sought to provide such a mechanistic explanation based on the hypothesis that the Hp 2-2 genotype and diabetes interact to promote HDL oxidative modification and dysfunction. RESEARCH DESIGN AND

methodsHb and lipid peroxides were assessed in HDL isolated from diabetic individuals or mice with the Hp 1-1 or Hp 2-2 genotypes. HDL function was assessed based on its ability to promote cholesterol efflux from macrophages. A crossover placebo-controlled study in Hp 2-2 diabetic humans and in Hp 1-1 and Hp 2-2 diabetic mice assessed the ability of vitamin E to favorably modify these structural and functional parameters. RESULTS-Hb and lipid peroxides associated with HDL were increased and HDL function was impaired in Hp 2-2 diabetic individuals and mice. Vitamin E decreased oxidative modification of HDL and improved HDL function in Hp 2-2 diabetes but had no effect in Hp 1-1 diabetes.

conclusionsVitamin E significantly improves the quality of HDL in Hp 2-2 diabetic individuals.

Indexed as

AnimalsAntioxidantsDiabetes Mellitus, Type 2GenotypeHaptoglobinsHumansLipoproteins, HDLMiceModels, BiologicalOxidation-ReductionVitamin EAntioxidantsHaptoglobinsLipoproteins, HDLVitamin E

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PMID18599520
PMCPMC2551691
OpenAlexW2170566445

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