Serum uric acid is an independent predictor of new-onset diabetes after living-donor kidney transplantation

• Published in: Renal replacement therapy Vol. 4; no. 1; pp. 28 - 7
• Main Authors: Tanaka, Kentaro, Sakai, Ken, Kushiyama, Akifumi, Hara, Shigeko, Hattori, Masakazu, Ohashi, Yasushi, Muramatsu, Masaki, Kawamura, Takeshi, Shishido, Seiichiro, Aikawa, Atsushi
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London Springer Nature B.V 25.07.2018; BMC
• Subjects: Body mass index; Diabetes; Hemodialysis; Insulin resistance; Kidney diseases; Kidney transplants; Living-donor kidney transplantation; Peritoneal dialysis; Uric acid; Japan
• ISSN: 2059-1381; 2059-1381
• DOI: 10.1186/s41100-018-0169-4

BackgroundWe investigated whether serum uric acid (SUA) levels before kidney transplantation predict new-onset diabetes after kidney transplantation (NODAT) and compared SUA levels with known risk factors for NODAT by prospective cohort study.MethodsA total of 151 adult kidney recipients without diabetes (84 men, 67 women) who underwent living-donor kidney transplantation between 2001 and 2011 were followed in this study. The Cox proportional hazards model was used to analyse the risk of NODAT.ResultsDuring the follow-up period (median 3.3 years, range 0–10 years), 32 (21.2%) adult kidney recipients without diabetes developed NODAT, and an incidence rate was 5.6 per 100 person-years and a 10-year cumulative incidence of 26.9%. When subjects were stratified by SUA levels into tertiles, the patients in the highest tertile (> 8.6 mg/dl for men, > 7.7 mg/dl for women) had a significantly higher risk of NODAT than the patients in the lower 2 tertiles (log-rank test, P = 0.03). In the univariate analysis, increased level of SUA was associated with NODAT (hazard ratio 1.27 [95% CI 1.04–1.55], P = 0.01). In the multivariate analysis, increased level of SUA was significantly associated with NODAT after correction by any factors, e.g. (age, sex, family history of diabetes, BMI, HbA1c, serum creatinine, tacrolimus, HCV) factors directly affecting the SUA value (1.26 [1.02–1.56], P = 0.03), risk factors for T2DM onset (1.34 [1.10–1.64], P = 0.03), and factors previously reported risk factors for NODAT (1.36 [1.11–1.66], P = 0.003).ConclusionSUA independently predicts NODAT in living-donor kidney transplantation patients.