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Preterm birth associated with elevated plasma insulin levels

byJohn PrendergassandBrittany Hasty, MD
February 12, 2014
in Chronic Disease, Endocrinology, Pediatrics
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1. Plasma insulin levels at birth and early childhood were found to be inversely proportional to gestational age.

2. Elevated plasma insulin levels at birth may lead to high insulin levels in early childhood.

Evidence Rating Level: 2 (Good) 

Study Rundown: Ever increasing rates of diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and other mostly preventable diseases has forced countless healthcare providers to continuously counsel patients on behavioral modification. This has proved difficult in the adult population and has led scientists to shift focus to discovering early developmental factors that may play a role in future disease predisposition. The association between low birth weight and increased propensity for adult disease has been well researched. However, the association between preterm birth and such disease processes is remains cloudy. While conditions such as insulin and type 2 diabetes have been loosely linked to preterm birth, there remains a lot to learn.

This study is the first to demonstrate the inverse relationship preterm birth has on random plasma insulin levels at birth and in early childhood. A major finding of the study determined that higher than normal levels of plasma insulin in early childhood can be predicted by higher than normal plasma insulin levels at birth. A weakness of this study lies in the authors’ inability to collect fasting insulin levels from the children and instead being forced to use random insulin levels. This study should serve as the beginning of the effort to understand just how early one’s predisposition to diabetes and insulin resistance begins.

Click to read the study, published today in JAMA

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Click to read an accompanying editorial in JAMA

Relevant Reading: Premature Birth and Later Insulin Resistance

In-Depth [prospective cohort]: This prospective cohort study included 1358 U.S. children from the Boston Birth Cohort. At birth, mean insulin levels were 9.2 μIU/mL for full term (95% CI, 8.4-10.0), 10.3 μIU/mL for early term (95% CI, 9.3-11.5), 13.2 μIU/mL for late preterm (95% CI, 11.8-14.8), and 18.9 μIU/mL for early preterm births (95% CI, 16.6-21.4). In early childhood, mean insulin levels were 11.2 μIU/mL for full term (95% CI, 10.3-12.0), 12.4 μIU/mL for early term (95% CI, 11.3-13.6), 13.3 μIU/mL for late preterm (95% CI, 11.9-14.8), and 14.6 μIU/mL for early preterm births (95% CI, 12.6-16.9). Early childhood was defined as the period from birth to age 6.5 years. Further, children who ranked in the top third of the group for cord blood insulin levels at birth were more likely to remain in the top third (41.2%) than were children ranked in the lowest third (28.6%) in early childhood.

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