High frequency of diabetes and impaired fasting glucose in patients with glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency in the Western brazilian Amazon

Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2014 Jul;91(1):74-6. doi: 10.4269/ajtmh.13-0032. Epub 2014 May 27.

Abstract

Glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD) deficiency is one of the most common human genetic abnormalities, and it has a significant prevalence in the male population (X chromosome linked). The purpose of this study was to estimate the frequency of impaired fasting glucose and diabetes among G6PD-deficient persons in Manaus, Brazil, an area in the Western Brazilian Amazon to which malaria is endemic. Glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase-deficient males had more impaired fasting glucose and diabetes. This feature could be used as a screening tool for G6PD-deficient persons who are unable to use primaquine for the radical cure of Plasmodium vivax malaria.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Adolescent
  • Adult
  • Aged
  • Antimalarials
  • Blood Glucose / metabolism*
  • Brazil / epidemiology
  • Child
  • Contraindications
  • Diabetes Complications
  • Diabetes Mellitus / drug therapy
  • Diabetes Mellitus / epidemiology*
  • Diabetes Mellitus / parasitology
  • Fasting
  • Glucosephosphate Dehydrogenase Deficiency / complications
  • Glucosephosphate Dehydrogenase Deficiency / drug therapy
  • Glucosephosphate Dehydrogenase Deficiency / epidemiology*
  • Glucosephosphate Dehydrogenase Deficiency / parasitology
  • Humans
  • Malaria, Vivax / complications
  • Malaria, Vivax / drug therapy
  • Malaria, Vivax / epidemiology*
  • Malaria, Vivax / parasitology
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Plasmodium vivax*
  • Prevalence
  • Primaquine

Substances

  • Antimalarials
  • Blood Glucose
  • Primaquine