Type 2 & other diabetes

Sleep Patterns, Plasma Metabolome, and Risk of Incident Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus

J Clin Endocrinol MetabPublished Prospective cohort study with mendelian randomization

Main finding · Incident T2D (1489 cases)Result — go to the resultMultivariable-adjusted HR 0.51 95% CI 0.40–0.63

Authors' conclusion

In this large prospective study, we identified a metabolomic signature for the healthy sleep pattern, and such a signature showed a potential causality with T2DM risk independent of traditional risk factors.

Study context

Population
UK Biobank participants with complete sleep information and metabolomic measurementsUK Biobank
Participants
78,659 participants
Exposure
Healthy vs unhealthy sleep pattern; metabolomic signature of sleep pattern and T2D risk
Outcome
Incident T2D
Follow-up
Median 8.8 years
Methodological detailsmetabolomic signature by elastic net regularized regression, genome-wide association analysis, one-sample mendelian randomization
  • Metabolomic signature by elastic net regularized regression
  • Genome-wide association analysis
  • One-sample mendelian randomization

Main finding

Incident T2D (1489 cases) · median 8.8 years

Multivariable-adjusted HR

0.51

95% CI 0.40–0.63

Healthy sleep patternvs Unhealthy sleep pattern
multivariable-adjusted HR 0.51 (95% CI 0.40–0.63)

As reported in the abstract

Metabolomic signature (153 metabolites) and T2D risk, HR per SD increment (95% CI 0.52-0.60), multivariable Cox
0.56

Observational data: associations, not effects.

Original publication

Sleep Patterns, Plasma Metabolome, and Risk of Incident Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus. J Clin Endocrinol Metab. Published 21 April 2023. doi:10.1210/clinem/dgad218

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