Interaction Between Dietary Iron Intake and Genetically Determined Iron Overload: Risk of Islet Autoimmunity and Progression to Type 1 Diabetes in the TEDDY Study

  • The TEDDY Study Group.
  • , Steffen U. Thorsen
  • , Xiang Liu
  • , Yachana Kataria
  • , Thomas Mandrup-Poulsen
  • , Simranjeet Kaur
  • , Ulla Uusitalo
  • , Suvi M. Virtanen
  • , Jill M. Norris
  • , Marian Rewers
  • , William Hagopian
  • , Jimin Yang
  • , Jin Xiong She
  • , Beena Akolkar
  • , Stephen Rich
  • , Carin Andren Aronsson
  • , Åke Lernmark
  • , Anette Gabriele Ziegler
  • , Jorma Toppari
  • , Jeffrey Krischer
  • Hemang M. Parikh, Christina Ellervik, Jannet Svensson*
*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

OBJECTIVE To examine whether iron intake and genetically determined iron overload interact in predisposing to the development of childhood islet autoimmunity (IA) and type 1 diabetes (T1D). RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS In The Environmental Determinants of Diabetes in the Young (TEDDY) study, 7,770 genetically high-risk children were followed from birth until the development of IA and progression to T1D. Exposures included energy-adjusted iron intake in the first 3 years of life and a genetic risk score (GRS) for increased circulating iron. RESULTS We found a U-shaped association between iron intake and risk of GAD antibody as the first autoantibody. In children with GRS ‡2 iron risk alleles, high iron intake was associated with an increased risk of IA, with insulin as first autoantibody (adjusted hazard ratio 1.71 [95% CI 1.14; 2.58]) compared with moderate iron intake. CONCLUSIONS Iron intake may alter the risk of IA in children with high-risk HLA haplogenotypes.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1014-1018
Number of pages5
JournalDIABETES CARE
Volume46
Issue number5
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2023
Publication typeA1 Journal article-refereed

Funding

Funding. The TEDDY study is funded by grants U01 DK63829, U01 DK63861, U01 DK63821, U01 DK63865, U01 DK63863, U01 DK63836, U01 DK63790, UC4 DK63829, UC4 DK63861, UC4 DK63821, UC4 DK63865, UC4 DK63863, UC4 DK63836, UC4 DK95300, UC4 DK100238, UC4 DK106955, UC4 DK112243, UC4 DK117483, U01 DK124166, and U01 DK128847 and contract HHSN267200700014C from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and JDRF. This work is supported in part by the National Institutes of Health/National Center for Advancing Translational sciences clinical and translational science awards to the University of Florida (UL1 TR000064) and the University of Colorado (UL1 TR002535) and by Fabrikant Vilhelm Pedersen og Hustrus Mindelegat grant 17798.

Keywords

  • Child
  • Humans
  • Infant
  • Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1
  • Autoimmunity/genetics
  • Iron, Dietary
  • Iron
  • Islets of Langerhans
  • Risk Factors
  • Autoantibodies/genetics
  • Iron Overload/genetics
  • Genetic Predisposition to Disease

Publication forum classification

  • Publication forum level 3

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Internal Medicine
  • Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism
  • Advanced and Specialised Nursing

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