OBJECTIVE -The aim of this study was to assess the incidence of posttransplantation diabetes mellitus (PTDM) in renal allograft recipients and to investigate factors contributing to the onset and progression of PTDM and its underlying pathogenic mechanism(s).RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS -A total of 77 patients with normal glucose tolerance (NGT) were enrolled in this study. An oral glucose tolerance test was performed 1 week before transplantation and repeated at 1 and 7 years after transplantation.RESULTS -The overall incidence of PTDM was 39% at 1 year and 35.1% at 7 years posttransplantation. The incidence for each category of PTDM was as follows: persistent PTDM (P-PTDM) (patients who developed diabetes mellitus within 1 year of transplantation and remained diabetic during 7 years), 23.4%; transient PTDM (T-PTDM) (patients who developed diabetes mellitus during the 1st year after transplantation but eventually recovered to have NGT), 15.6%; late PTDM (L-PTDM) (patients who developed diabetes mellitus later than 1 year after transplantation), 11.7%; and non-PTDM during 7 years (N-PTDM 7 ) (patients who did not develop diabetes mellitus during 7 years), 49.3%. Older age (Ն40 years) at transplantation was a higher risk factor for P-PTDM, whereas a high BMI (Ն25 kg/m 2 ) and impaired fasting glucose (IFG) at 1 year posttransplantation were higher risk factors for L-PTDM. Impaired insulin secretion rather than insulin resistance was significantly associated with the development of Pand L-PTDM.CONCLUSIONS -Impaired insulin secretion may be the main mechanism for the development of PTDM. Older age at transplantation seems to be associated with P-PTDM, whereas a high BMI and IFG at 1 year after transplantation were associated with L-PTDM.
Diabetes Care 30:609 -615, 2007P osttransplantation diabetes mellitus (PTDM) is a major complication after kidney transplantation and can lead to a wide range of complications including graft loss, increased mortality, increased number of rejections, and increased risk of cardiovascular disease (1-4). A recent meta-analysis of observational studies and randomized, controlled trials showed that the incidence of PTDM during the 1st year after transplantation varied from 2 to 50% (5). There have been several previous reports on PTDM in Korean patients, albeit for a short period of observation. We reported previously that the incidence of PTDM was 23.7% in 114 patients treated with cyclosporine A (CsA) at 9 -12 months after transplantation (6), whereas Cho et al. (7) reported that it was 57.1% in 21 patients treated with tacrolimus at 6 months after transplantation in Korea.PTDM and type 2 diabetes are similar in many ways. One example is that the onset of both can be insidious (8); individuals may experience glucose intolerance and remain asymptomatic for years before symptoms manifest clinically (9,10). Furthermore, PTDM is not always permanent and may resolve within weeks or months, sometimes without treatment (11). Although several recent reports on a consensus definition of PTDM ha...