Joint analysis of individual participants' data from 17 studies on the association of the IL6 variant-174GC with circulating glucose levels, interleukin-6 levels, and body mass index

Huth, Cornelia and Illig, Thomas and Herder, Christian and Gieger, Christian and Grallert, Harald and Vollmert, Caren and Rathmann, Wolfgang and Hamid, Yasmin H. and Pedersen, Oluf and Hansen, Torben and Thorand, Barbara and Meisinger, Christa and Doering, Angela and Klopp, Norman and Gohlke, Henning and Lieb, Wolfgang and Hengstenberg, Christian and Lyssenko, Valeriya and Groop, Leif and Ireland, Helen and Stephens, Jeffrey W. and Asterholm, Ingrid Wernstedt and Jansson, John-Olov and Boeing, Heiner and Moehlig, Matthias and Stringham, Heather M. and Boehnke, Michael and Tuomilehto, Jaakko and Fernandez-Real, Jose-Manuel and Lopez-Bermejo, Abel and Gallart, Luis and Vendrell, Joan and Humphries, Steve E. and Kronenberg, Florian and Wichmann, H. -Erich and Heid, Iris M. (2009) Joint analysis of individual participants' data from 17 studies on the association of the IL6 variant-174GC with circulating glucose levels, interleukin-6 levels, and body mass index. ANNALS OF MEDICINE, 41 (2): PII 901960. pp. 128-138. ISSN 0785-3890, 1365-2060

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Abstract

Background. Several studies have investigated associations between the -174GC single nucleotide polymorphism (rs1800795) of the IL6 gene and phenotypes related to type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) but presented inconsistent results. Aims. This joint analysis aimed to clarify whether IL6 -174GC was associated with glucose and circulating interleukin-6 concentrations as well as body mass index (BMI). Methods. Individual-level data from all studies of the IL6-T2DM consortium on Caucasian subjects with available BMI were collected. As study-specific estimates did not show heterogeneity (P0.1), they were combined by using the inverse-variance fixed-effect model. Results. The main analysis included 9440, 7398, 24,117, or 5659 non-diabetic and manifest T2DM subjects for fasting glucose, 2-hour glucose, BMI, or circulating interleukin-6 levels, respectively. IL6 -174 C-allele carriers had significantly lower fasting glucose (-0.091 mmol/L, P=0.014). There was no evidence for association between IL6 -174GC and BMI or interleukin-6 levels, except in some subgroups. Conclusions. Our data suggest that C-allele carriers of the IL6 -174GC polymorphism have lower fasting glucose levels on average, which substantiates previous findings of decreased T2DM risk of these subjects.

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: G/C PROMOTER POLYMORPHISM; TYPE-2 DIABETES-MELLITUS; MYOCARDIAL-INFARCTION; GENE PROMOTER; RISK-FACTORS; PLASMA INTERLEUKIN-6; METABOLIC SYNDROME; METAANALYSIS; OBESITY; COHORT; Blood glucose; body mass index; diabetes mellitus type 2; genes; inflammation mediators; interleukin-6; intermediate phenotype; meta-analysis; molecular epidemiology; single nucleotide polymorphism
Subjects: 600 Technology > 610 Medical sciences Medicine
Divisions: Medicine > Lehrstuhl für Innere Medizin II
Depositing User: Dr. Gernot Deinzer
Date Deposited: 09 Oct 2020 06:52
Last Modified: 09 Oct 2020 06:52
URI: https://pred.uni-regensburg.de/id/eprint/29637

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