IBN AL- HAITHAM J. FO R PURE & APPL. SC I VO L.22 (3) 2009 The Effect of Leptin Hormone Levels In Type( II) Diabetic Nephropathy Patients N. T. Taher National diabetes center (NDS), University of AL-Mustansriya. Abstract Type 2 diabetes Nephropathy complication is one of the most commonest metabolic disorders that becomes an advanced serum level of hormone altered. The objective is to study the effect of leptin levels in Type 2 diabetes nephropathy (D.N) complication and healthy subject. This study was done in National Diabetes Center (NDC), AL-Mustansriya University;on a total (64) individuals whase age were ranged from(45-60) years,of which (38) patients of type 2 diabetes nephropathy , and (26) healthy( controls). The collected data ,information concerning the individuals used in the present study were: age, sex , body mass index (BMI) and blood samples to estimate serum leptin levels , fasting plasma glugcose (FPG) , glycated hemoglobin (HbA1c), serum creatinine, blood urea , and micral tests (urinary to microalbumine to creatinine ratio). The mean FPG, HbA1c and Micral tests of type 2 diabetes nephropathy (D.N) showed statistical significant with healthy control ;on the other hard the data shows significant increases in leptin level in type 2 diabetes nephropathy (D.N) ( urinary microalbumin to creatnin ratio ranged 30-300 mg/g) compared with healthy control. No significant correlation was present between serum leptin and both serum creatinine and blood urea ,so there wasn’t any correlation between BMI and serum leptin levels .In conclusion the results showed that serum leptin level was elevated in type 2 diabetes nephropathy(D.N) because impaired increase with progression of renal disease in diabetic nephropathy . Introduction Type 2 diabetes mellitus: called non insulin depended diabetes mellitus (NIDDM ) accounts for 90% of the population with diabetes in this type. There are varying degrees of insulin resistance or insulin secretary defects (1). Complication of diabetes occurs after many years of uncontrolled hyperglycemia (2).The consequences of diabetes are nephropathic disease ,which lead to chronic renal failure (CRF)(3). Diabetic Nephropathy (D.N) is a progressive kidney disease caused by angiopathy of capillaries in the kidney glomeruli .It is characterized by nephrotic syndrome and long standing diabetes mellitus and is a primary cause for dialysis in many western countries(4). In diabetic nephropathy measurement microalbuminuria test results may aid clinicians in the detection of patient at risk of developing kidney damage (5,6) . Leptin is a 16KD protein hormone of 167 amino acids which plays a key role in regulation food intake and energy expenditure , including the regulation of appetite and increase of metabolism (7,8). Human kidney plays a substantial role in leptin removal from plasma by taking up and degrading the peptide . Renal leptin net balance and urinary leptin execretion were detected by Lineweaver-Burk analysis . This analysis indicated that renal leptin uptake followed saturation kinetics with an apparent Michaelis-M enten constant of 10.9 ng/ml . Renal leptin uptake could be 80% of all leptin removal from plasma , generally leptin was undetectable in urine(9) about 20-30% of patients with type1 or type2 diabetes develop evidence of nephropathy , and such patients currently starting of dialysis (10). Furthermore, Hyperglycemia also activate protein kinase c, may contribute to renal diseases and vascular complications of diabetes (9), and also familiar or genetic factor plays a role in diabetic IBN AL- HAITHAM J. FO R PURE & APPL. SC I VO L.22 (3) 2009 nephropathy (3) .In addition previously described direct and indirect effects of leptin on the kidney include natriuretic effects ,an increase in sympathetic nervous activity , and stimulation of reactive oxygen species . These findings collectively suggest that the kidney is a target organ for leptin and that this hormone might play an important role in renal pathophysiology (11). Materials and Method This study was carried out in National Diabetes Center (NDC), AL- Mustansiriya University ; on a total (64) individuals ,(30 females and 34 males) aged (45-60) years .Thirty eight patients Type 2 diabetes nephropathic (urinary microalbumin to creatinine ratio was range 30-300 mg/g) , (26) healthy controls . Data collection about age , sex and body mass index(BMI). Blood samples from the individuals were taken for laboratory investigation: which included , Fasting Plasma Glucose (FPG) , Glycated Hemoglobin (HbA1c) , blood urea , serum creatinine and determination leptin level in serum ; (DGR instruments GmbH , Germany ,ELISA KIT)(12), and Micral tests ; supplied by Bayer Healthy Care, V.S.A(13). Analysis of data was carried out by using SPSS(statistical package for social sciences). Results and Discussion A total of 64 individuals(38 patients and 26 control) were examined successfully without any healthy problems . Diabetes is the most common cause of renal failure, and there is an account for more than 40 percent of new cases who have development of kidney problems in people with diabetes (14). Leptin hormone ,which is secreted from adipocytes has a role in the regulation of appetite and energy expenditure.This protein is produced by adipocrine , pancreas and other organs by activating the transmembranc receptor and is cleared from plasma mainly by the kidney (15).The results showed that the serum leptin levels in the Type 2 diabetes nephropathy (urinary microalbumin to creatinin ratio 30-300 mg/g) significantly were higher p < 0.05 (Table-1) compared with healthy controls and this result agrees with Chan- Wb et al.(17)and Fruehwared-Schultes et al.(16) ,they found significant elevated levels of serum leptin in Type 2 diabetes nephropathy (D.N) compared with non diabetic controls .The human kidney plays a substantial role in leptin removal from the plasma by absorping and degrading the peptide (18). Increasing albumin level in urin (microalbuminuria) is considered as key characteristics of diabetic nephropathy (16).Table(2) showed that there was a significant positive correlation of FPG , HbA1c p<0.05 in Type 2 diabetes nephropathy (D.N) compared with healthy control subjects, serum leptin level did not correlate with FPG and HbA1c (r =0.343, r=0.315) respectively (table-3),these results agreed with Fu-M e chung et al. (19) . He found that there was no correlation between leptin level and FPG, HbA1c, which indicate that leptin is not affected by the degree of glycemic control ,while Pistrosh et al. (20) found that patients with Type 2 diabetes had high levels of FBG and HbA1c, compared with healthy control .Such increase may be due to insulin resistance in Type 2 diabetic nephropathy patients in which leptin reduces insulin secretion and enhances hematopiesis (21).There was a significant positive correlation of BMI in Type 2 diabetic nephropathy compared with control p <0.05 (Table-2) but there wasn’t any significant correlation between BMI and leptin level in Type 2 diabetic nephropathy as shown in(table-3) . This correlation may be explained by the presence of additional factor which would increase the impaired degradation by the affected kidney (22) . Hyperliptenimia may play a role in the decreased BMI (anorexia and malnutrition) that usually accompanied chronic renal failure. Furthermore , there were no significant correlation between serum creatinine and blood urea levels with serum leptin levels in Type 2 diabetic nephropathy (19) , but both creatinine and urea levels increase in Type 2 diabetes; this may be due to renal impairment in Type 2 diabetic nephropathy (23) . In conclusion the results showed that serum leptin level was elevated in IBN AL- HAITHAM J. FO R PURE & APPL. SC I VO L.22 (3) 2009 type 2 diabetes nephropathy(D.N) because impaired would increase with the progression of renal disease in diabetic nephropathy . References 1. Bishop, M . L .; Duben, E. J. and Fody , E. P. ( 2000),clinical chemistry, forth eddition.,p.220. 2. Shichiri, M.; Kishikawa, H.; Oct kutooy ,Nake ,N. ( 2000), diabetes.Diabetes Care ., 23(2):.21-29 . 3. Sandeep ,S .; Soman ,M.D.; MBBS.;Anjana,S. DNB. ( 2006), Diabetes Nephropathy Medicin . August., 509(4):521-542. 4. Diabetic Nephropathy-Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia,1. ( 2007): [Internet article]. 5. Mogensen ,C. 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SC I VO L.22 (3) 2009 Table(1) :Serum leptin levels in Type 2 Diabetic Nephropathy and control Table(2) :The mean of BMI, FBG, and HbAIc in Type 2 Diabetes Nephropathy (D.N)and controls Type 2 (D .N) n=38 Control n=26 28.99+6.69 25.01+3.40 BMI (Kg/m) 177.62+50.20 77.19+2.25 FPG mg/dl)( 9.23+2.48 4.18+0.12 HbAIc (%) Table(3) :The correlation coefficient (r) between BMI ,FPG, and HbA1c with serum leptin levels (control & diabetic nephropathy) Type 2 (D.N ) Control 20.18+4.40 10.60+3.17 Leptin (ng\ml) Type 2 (D.N) Control Leptin (ng/ml) Leptin (ng/ml) 0.392 0.380 r BMI 0.120 0.055 P 0.343 0.259 r FBG 0.101 0.201 p 0.315 0.256 r HbA1c 0.164 0.207 p 2009) 3( 22والتطبیقیة المجلدمجلة ابن الهیثم للعلوم الصرفة تأثیر مستوى هرمون اللبتین لدى مرضى السكري النوع الثاني والمصاحب باعتالل الكلى نور ثائر طاھر المركز الوطني السكري ، الجامعة المستنصریة الخالصة غیـر ةالذي یعـزى الـى عملیـات ایضـی ةداء السكري النوع الثاني والمصاحب باعتالل الكلى من االمراض الشائع دیع اثیر مسـتوى هرمـون اللبتـین عنـد مرضـى السـكري .محدث تغیرات في مستویات معظـم الهرمونـات ةطبیعی النـوع (تـم درس تـ تراوحــت ، فــردا) 64(علــى ةریـت الدراســاذ اج، االخــرى ةكریوالمصــاحب بــاعتالل الكلــى ومـدى عالقتــه بالمعاییرالســ) الثـاني ) 26(و ،یعـانون مــن مـرض الســكري النـوع الثــاني والمصـاحب بــاعتالل الكلــى "امریضــ) 38(، ةسـن) 60-45(اعمـارهم بــین ،والجـنس ،بـالعمر ةالمعلومـات الخاصـ تجمعـ و. ةالمستنصـری ةالجامع -من االصحاء في المركز الوطني السكري "اشخص والیوریـا ،والهیموغلـوبین المتسـكر، واخـذت العینـات لغـرض قیـاس مسـتوى هرمـون اللبتـین وقیـاس الكلوكـوز ،الجسـم ةومعدل كتل فـي ةاحصـائی ةبینـت النتـائج وجـود قیمـ) . االلبـومین الـى الكریـاتنین فـي البـول ةنسب(س فحص مكرل ین وكذلك قیوالكریاتن، وفحص مكرل عند مرضى السكري،سكروالهیموغلوبین المت،فحص السكر الصائم ارتفـاع مســتوى اللبتــین عنــد ةوكـذلك بینــت الدراســ، االصــحاء ةمـع مجموعــ ةالنـوع الثــاني والمصــاحب بـاعتالل الكلــى مقارنــ -30االلبومین الى الكریـاتنین فـي البـول تتـراوح بـین ةنسب(مرضى السكري النوع الثاني المصاحب باعتالل الكلى التي كانت ـاتنین ةمقارنـ) غــم/ملغـم 300 ه بــین مسـتوى اللبتــین وكــل مـن مســتوى الكریـ ه ترابطیــ مــع االصــحاء كـذلك عــدم وجــود عالقـ .بین معدل كتله الجسم ومستوى اللبتین ةترابطی ةولم یالحظ وجود عالق،والیوریا في مصل الدم اني والمصـاحب بـاعتالل الكلـى نتیجـه ان مستوى هرمون اللبتـین یرتفـع عنـد مرضـى السـكري النـوع الثـ ةنستنتج من هذه الدراس .والتحلیل عند مرضى السكري ةضعف الكلى تدریجیا على التجزئل