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Clinical Chemistry 49: 1358-1366, 2003; 10.1373/49.8.1358
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(Clinical Chemistry. 2003;49:1358-1366.)
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Lipids, Lipoproteins, and Cardiovascular Risk Factors

{gamma}-Glutamyltransferase Is a Predictor of Incident Diabetes and Hypertension: The Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults (CARDIA) Study

Duk-Hee Lee1,2, David R. Jacobs, Jr2,4,a, Myron Gross3, Catarina I. Kiefe5,7, Jeffrey Roseman6, Cora E. Lewis5 and Michael Steffes

1 Department of Preventive Medicine, College of Medicine, Kosin University, Pusan, Korea 602-202.

2 Division of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, and
3 Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55454.

4 Institute for Nutrition Research, University of Oslo, N-0316 Oslo, Norway.

5 Division of Preventive Medicine, School of Medicine, and
6 Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Alabama at Birmingham, AL 35205.

7 Birmingham Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Birmingham, AL 35233.

aAddress correspondence to this author at: Division of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, 1300 South 2nd St., Suite 300, Minneapolis, MN 55454. Fax 612-624-0315; e-mail jacobs{at}epi.umn.edu.

Background: {gamma}-Glutamyltransferase (GGT), which maintains cellular concentrations of glutathione, may be a marker of oxidative stress, and GGT itself may produce oxidative stress. We performed a prospective study to examine whether serum GGT predicts diabetes and hypertension.

Methods: Study participants were 4844 black and white men and women 18–30 years of age in 1985–1986; they were reexamined 2, 5, 7, 10, and 15 years later. Year 0 GGT cutpoints were 12, 17, 25, and 36 U/L (overall 25th, 50th, 75th, and 90th percentiles; the laboratory cutpoints for abnormal are 40 U/L in women and 50 U/L in men). We deleted 32 participants with prevalent diabetes and 140 participants with prevalent hypertension from the respective incidence analyses.

Results: After adjustment for study center, race, sex, and age in proportional hazards regression, the hazard ratios across year 0 GGT categories were 1.0, 1.6, 1.7, 4.0 (95% confidence interval, 2.0–8.1), and 5.5 (2.7–11.1) for 15-year incident diabetes and 1.0, 1.2, 1.7 (1.2–2.2), 2.3 (1.7–3.2), and 2.3 (1.7–3.2) for hypertension. Additional adjustment for year 0 alcohol consumption, body mass index, cigarette smoking, and physical activity attenuated this relationship, but GGT remained a significant predictor.

Conclusions: Serum GGT within a range regarded as physiologically normal is associated with incident diabetes and hypertension. Considering known functionality of GGT, these associations are consistent with a role for oxidative stress in risk for diabetes and hypertension.




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