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ArticleLipids in health and disease2014

Absence of clinical relationship between oxidized low density lipoproteins and diabetic peripheral neuropathy: a case control study.

Alma Rosales-Hernandez, Audrey Cheung, Peter Podgorny, Cynthia Chan, Cory Toth

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Article in Lipids in health and disease, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Alma Rosales-Hernandez
Audrey Cheung
Peter Podgorny
Cynthia Chan
Cory TothDepartment of Clinical Neurosciences, The Hotchkiss Brain Institute, and the University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada. corytoth@shaw.ca.
University of Calgary · CA

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundThe pathophysiology of diabetic peripheral neuropathy (DPN) is complex and uncertain. A potential comorbidity in diabetes mellitus (DM) that may contribute to greater severity of DPN is a lipid disorder, such as with elevated cholesterol, low density lipoproteins or triglycerides. Oxidized low density lipoprotein (oxLDL) is a form of cholesterol that exerts direct toxic effects and contributes to pathogenicity through ligating a receptor called lectin-like receptor (LOX-1).

methodsWe examined plasma oxLDL levels in cohorts of patients with DPN with neuropathic pain (NeP), DPN patients without NeP, DM patients without DPN, patients with idiopathic peripheral neuropathy, and control subjects without DM or neuropathy. Our outcome measure was extent of oxLDL elevation, measured as fasting with Enzyme-Linked ImmunoSorbant Assay (ELISA) studies. Severity of diabetes was assessed using hemoglobin A1C measurements. Neuropathic severity was measured with the Utah Early Neuropathy Score (UENS). We hypothesized that DPN presence would be associated with oxLDL elevations.

resultsA total of 115 subjects (47 with DPN and NeP, 23 with DPN without NeP, 12 with diabetes only, 13 with idiopathic peripheral neuropathy, and 20 control subjects without diabetes or neuropathy) were studied. Duration of diabetes and diabetic glycemic measures were similar between populations with DM. Severity of DPN was similar between cohorts with DPN and NeP and DPN without NeP. Plasma oxLDL levels were similar between all cohorts, without any elevation in the presence of DM noted in any cohort with DM.

conclusionsoxLDL levels are not different in patients with DPN, and their lack of greater presence suggests that any pathogenic role in human DPN is likely limited.

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AgedBiomarkersCase-Control StudiesDiabetes Mellitus, Type 2Diabetic NeuropathiesFemaleGlycated HemoglobinHumansLipoproteins, LDLMaleMiddle AgedPeripheral Nervous System DiseasesRisk FactorsSeverity of Illness IndexBiomarkersGlycated Hemoglobinhemoglobin A1c protein, humanLipoproteins, LDLoxidized low density lipoprotein

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PMID24520839
PMCPMC3933384
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