Zinc & Diabetes in Patients With Thalassemia: a Pilot Study

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Clinical Trial Summary

The primary aim of this study is to measure zinc status and related proteins in patients with Thalassemia who have or do not have diabetes. The secondary aim will be to explore the effect of zinc supplementation on glucose metabolism in patients with thalassemia.

Clinical Trial Description

Patients with Thalassemia major (Thal) require frequent blood transfusions and are at risk for iron overload. High tissue iron increases the risk of various endocrinopathies, including diabetes, as well as cardiovascular disease, and infections due to the formation of free radicals. This systemic condition of oxidative stress elicits an antioxidant response to reduce tissue damage. Zinc is an important component of that response because it can compete with iron for multiple cellular binding sites and, therefore, reduce the redox-cycling of iron and minimize iron-mediated oxidation of lipids, proteins, and DNA. In Thal patients with chronic hepatic iron overload, tissue zinc redistribution is likely to be persistent. This could create an unbalanced tissue zinc distribution with excessive amounts in the liver and deficient levels in other tissues altering zinc-dependent functions, such as growth, skeletal development, immunity, and glucose regulation. There is a rich body of literature focused on the 'diabetogenic effects' of altered zinc status which will be reviewed herein. Our group has recently shown that supplementation with 25 mg/d of zinc can improve bone density in patients with Thal. This provides evidence for a functional zinc deficiency, which may also affect other whole body zinc functions, such as insulin secretion and glucose homeostasis. Our hypothesis is that hepatic iron overload induces a sub-clinical inflammatory response that alters the expression of MT and zinc-transport proteins leading to hepatic zinc sequestration, and an associated zinc-depletion in other tissues. Marginal zinc depletion in turn leads to increased oxidative stress, cellular apoptosis and altered glucose homeostasis and insulin secretion. This proposal will focus on cross-sectional differences in markers of glucose homeostasis and zinc status in diabetic and non-diabetic Thal patients, combined with a short- term zinc supplementation to explore the effect on glucose and insulin homeostasis. ;

Study Design

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Thalassemia

Clinical Trial Details

NCT number	NCT01772680
Study type	Interventional
Source	UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital Oakland
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Status	Completed
Phase	N/A
Start date	November 2012
Completion date	May 2015

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Zinc and Diabetes in Patients With Thalassemia: a Pilot Study

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