Precision Medicine in Chinese Patients With Young Onset Diabetes (NCT04049149) | Clinical Trial Compass
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Precision Medicine in Chinese Patients With Young Onset Diabetes
Hong Kong884 participantsStarted 2020-01-14
Plain-language summary
Patients with young onset diabetes (YOD) are one of the most challenging groups of patients due to their long disease duration, complex causes, delayed interventions, psychosocial stress, poor adherence and frequent default. The investigator's previous studies indicate that provision of biogenetic information improved satisfaction, reduced ambiguity and improved self-efficacy in patients with T2D. Provision of personalized information using the web-based Joint Asia Diabetes Evaluation (JADE) Technology with risk stratification and decision support empowers better self care and medical intervention with improved control of risk factors. To further improve the precision of diagnosis for individualizing care, the use of CP, GADA, genetic risk scores (GRS) or rare genetic variants of maturity onset of diabetes (MODY) can help doctors select the most appropriate therapy in a timely manner. While patients with low CP, GADA and high GRS will benefit from early insulin therapy, some MODY variants are associated with good response to insulin-releasing oral drugs (e.g. sulphonylurea) which may spare the use of insulin with reduced patient distress and over-insulinization. By contrast, patients with high CP often due to obesity-associated insulin resistance should undergo intensive lifestyle modification and use of drugs with weight-reducing or neutral effects to avoid weight gain due to excessive dose of insulin.
Who can participate
Age range
18 Years – 50 Years
Sex
ALL
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Inclusion Criteria:
Part 1: Prospective cohort of Chinese with type 2 diabetes
Between 1995 and December 2004, 10,129 patients were assessed using structured protocol to esetablish the HKDR and of them, we have measured GADA and CP in 1400 patients with YOD. In this study, we shall measure CP and GADA in 4000 subjects from the HKDR with available GWAS data irrespective of their age of diagnosis. These samples were linked to our various databases by a unique identification code which will enable us to track the clinical outcomes including development of complications.
Part 2: Family-based cohort of first-degree relatives of diabetic probands
We shall utilize the resource of the HKDFS and control subjects to discover novel genetic variants of YOD. Subjects will be selected based on their status with or without diabetes. In 2012-2013, we ascertained the glycemic status of 365 siblings in the HKDFS and 452 participants of the community-based LKS cohort (aged 18-55 years) without diabetes at baseline (1998-2002).
In this cohort, 167 participants (53.7%) with a family history of YOD, 68 participants (30.1%) with a family history of late onset diabetes and 40 (14.4%) participants without family history of diabetes developed diabetes. Amongst the 313 siblings with family history of YOD, 167 had diabetes at baseline or developed diabetes during follow up and 146 did not develop diabetes after 13 years giving 100-120 sibpairs for linkage analysis. These sequence data will be imput…
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1Based on my diagnosis and history, is this trial worth exploring for me — or is there a standard treatment we should try first?
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What they're measuring
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Prevalence of C-Peptide (CP) and Glutamic Acid Decarboxylase Antibody (GADA) in Chinese adult patients with T2D (Part 1 of study)
Timeframe: through study completion, an average of 4 years
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The correlation of C-Peptide (CP) and Glutamic Acid Decarboxylase Antibody (GADA) on clinical outcomes (Part 1 of study)
Timeframe: through study completion, an average of 4 years
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Incidence of young-onset type 2 diabetes and its genetic susceptibility (Part 2 of study)
Timeframe: through study completion, an average of 4 years
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Incidence of any diabetes-related micro/macrovascular endpoints (Part 3 of study)
Timeframe: through study completion, an average of 4 year