ReviewAmerican journal of physiology. Regulatory, integrative and comparative physiology2012
Sodium-retaining effect of insulin in diabetes.
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48 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 71 citations in OpenAlex.
- Effect of Insulin on Proximal Tubules Handling of Glucose: A Systematic Review.Journal of diabetes research · 2020Pooled it
- Impact of insulin therapy on outcomes of diabetic patients with heart failure: A systematic review and meta-analysis.Diabetes & vascular disease researchPooled it
- Efficacy and Safety of Enavogliflozin as Add-on in Adults with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus Inadequately Controlled with Insulin or Insulin with Other Antidiabetic Drugs.Diabetes & metabolism journal · 2026Trial
- Severe Hypoglycemia and Incident Heart Failure Among Adults With Type 2 Diabetes.The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism · 2022Trial
- Effect of high-salt diet on blood pressure and body fluid composition in patients with type 1 diabetes: randomized controlled intervention trial.BMJ open diabetes research & care · 2020Trial
- Garlic Improves Normal Water and Sodium Handling in Diabetic Kidneys by Attenuating Atrial Natriuretic Peptide: A Comparison with Metformin Treatment.International journal of molecular sciences · 2026Article
- Extracellular-to-total body water ratio is associated with comorbidity and cardiorespiratory fitness in older adults with post-COVID-19 syndrome.Frontiers in nutrition · 2026Article
- Association Between Insulin Therapy and In-Hospital Death in Chronic Heart Failure Patients With Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: Mediated by Plasma Volume.Journal of diabetes · 2025Article
- Is Type 2 Diabetes a Modifiable Risk Factor for the Evolution and Progression of Heart Failure With a Preserved Ejection Fraction?Journal of the American College of Cardiology · 2025Review
- Diabetic cardiomyopathy: a comprehensive review of diagnosis, management, and future directions.Diabetology & metabolic syndrome · 2025Review
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- Electrolyte Imbalances and Metabolic Emergencies in Obesity: Mechanisms and Clinical Implications.Diseases (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Diabetes and its Silent Partner: A Critical Review of Hyperinsulinemia and its Complications.Current diabetes reviews · 2025Review
- Kidney Energetics and Cyst Burden in Autosomal Dominant Polycystic Kidney Disease: A Pilot Study.American journal of kidney diseases : the official journal of the National Kidney Foundation · 2024Article
- Sodium-glucose cotransporter 2 inhibitors and heart failure: the best timing for the right patient.Heart failure reviews · 2023Review
- Acute Effects of Insulin Infusion on Kidney Hemodynamic Function in People With Type 2 Diabetes and Normal Kidney Function.Kidney international reports · 2023Article
- Low-Carbohydrate High-Fat Diet: A SWOC Analysis.Metabolites · 2022Review
- Youth versus adult-onset type 2 diabetic kidney disease: Insights into currently known structural differences and the potential underlying mechanisms.Clinical science (London, England : 1979) · 2022Article
- Tissue Sodium Accumulation: Pathophysiology and Clinical Implications.Antioxidants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Review
- Development and validation of dietary and lifestyle insulinemic indices among Iranian adult population.Nutrition & metabolism · 2022Article
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Abstract
Insulin has long been hypothesized to cause sodium retention, potentially of enough magnitude to contribute to hypertension in obesity, metabolic syndrome, and Type II diabetes. There is an abundance of supportive evidence from correlational analyses in humans, acute insulin infusion studies in humans and animals, and chronic insulin infusion studies in rats. However, the absence of hypertension in human insulinoma patients, and negative results for sodium-retaining or blood pressure effects of chronic insulin infusion in a whole series of dog studies, strongly refute the insulin hypothesis. We recently questioned whether the euglycemic, hyperinsulinemia model used for most insulin infusion studies, including the previous chronic dog studies, was the most appropriate model to test the renal actions of insulin in obesity, metabolic syndrome, and Type II diabetes. In those circumstances, hyperinsulinemia coexists with hyperglycemia. Therefore, we tested the sodium-retaining effect of insulin in chronically instrumented, alloxan-treated diabetic dogs. We used 24 h/day intravenous insulin infusion to regulate plasma insulin concentration. Induction of diabetes (∼400 mg/dl) caused sustained natriuresis and diuresis. However, if we clamped insulin at baseline, control levels, i.e., prevented it from decreasing, then the sustained natriuresis and diuresis were completely reversed, despite the same level of hyperglycemia. We also found that 24 h/day intrarenal insulin infusion had the same effect in diabetic dogs but had no sodium-retaining action in normal dogs. This new evidence that insulin has a sodium-retaining effect during hyperglycemia may have implications for maintaining sodium balance in uncontrolled Type II diabetes.
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