Diabetes Metab J.  2022 Nov;46(6):948-952. 10.4093/dmj.2021.0332.

Glutamic Acid Decarboxylase and Tyrosine Phosphatase-Related Islet Antigen-2 Positivity among Children and Adolescents with Diabetes in Korea

• Kim KY
• Kim MS
• Lee YJ
• Lee YA
• Lee SY
• Shin CH
• Kim JH

• KMID: 2536153
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.4093/dmj.2021.0332

Abstract

Autoantibodies against glutamic acid decarboxylase (GADA), tyrosine phosphatase-related islet antigen 2 (IA2A), insulin (INSA), and islet cells (ICA) are critical for determining the type of diabetes and management strategy in new-onset diabetes mellitus (NODM), but there have been few reports of all diabetes-associated autoantibody (DAA) in Korea. We retrospectively analyzed 193 patients with NODM aged 0 to 18 years who were followed at two tertiary centers in Korea (2017 to 2021). Patients with type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM) and type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) were 93 (48.2%) and 100 (51.8%), respectively. In T1DM patients, the DAA positivity rate was 94.6%; prevalence of GADA, IA2A, INSA, and ICA was 71.0%, 71.0%, 31.2%, and 10.8%, respectively; and IA2A added 10.7% point autoantibody positivity (83.9% for GADA+INSA+ICA and 94.6% for GADA+INSA+ICA+IA2A). Among the patients with T2DM, 12 (12.0%) were positive for DAA, and all were positive for INSA. These findings suggest that DAA at diagnosis, especially GADA and IA2A, is useful for classifying diabetes in Korean children and adolescents.

Keyword

Autoantibodies; Diabetes mellitus, type 1; Diabetes mellitus, type 2; Insulin antibodies

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  Fig. 1. Venn diagram of autoantibody combinations in patients with type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM). GADA, autoantibody to glutamic acid decarboxylase; IA2A, autoantibody to tyrosine phosphatase-related islet antigen 2; INSA, insulin autoantibody; ICA, autoantibody to islet cells.

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