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Effect of Prebiotic on Microbiota, Intestinal Permeability, and Glycemic Control in Children With Type 1 Diabetes

2019· article· en· 163 citations· W2951408219 on OpenAlex· 10.1210/jc.2019-00481

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Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

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Consensus categories
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Domain
Candidate signal: noneConsensus signal: none
Study design
Candidate signal: ObservationalConsensus signal: Observational
Genre
Candidate signal: EmpiricalConsensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score
0.277
Threshold uncertainty score
0.367
Validation status
machine_predicted_unvalidated · codex-gemma-dda1882f352a

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The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Opus teacher head0.008
GPT teacher head0.305
Teacher spread
0.297 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation status
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Abstract

CONTEXT: Patients with type 1 diabetes (T1D) have lower microbiota diversity and distinct gut microbial profiles that have been linked to changes in intestinal permeability. Prebiotics are nondigestible carbohydrates that alter gut microbiota and could potentially improve glycemic control and reduce intestinal permeability and thereby insulin sensitivity. OBJECTIVE: To determine the effect of prebiotics on glycemic control, gut microbiota, and intestinal permeability in children with T1D. DESIGN: A randomized, placebo-controlled trial in children 8 to 17 years of age with T1D using placebo or prebiotic oligofructose-enriched inulin for 12 weeks. Baseline, 3-month, and 6-month assessments included HbA1c, C-peptide, gut microbiota, intestinal permeability, frequency of diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA), and severe hypoglycemia. RESULTS: Forty-three subjects were randomized and 38 completed the study. The groups were similar at baseline: prebiotic (N = 17), age 12.5 years (SD of 2.8), HbA1c 8.02% (SD of 0.82); placebo (N = 21), age 12.0 years (SD of 2.6), HbA1c 8.08% (SD of 0.91). No significant differences were found in the frequency of DKA or severe hypoglycemia. At 3-months, C-peptide was significantly higher (P = 0.029) in the group who received prebiotics, which was accompanied by a modest improvement in intestinal permeability (P = 0.076). There was a significant increase in the relative abundance of Bifidobacterium within the prebiotic group at 3 months that was no longer present after the 3-month washout. The placebo group had significantly higher relative abundance of Streptococcus, Roseburia inulinivorans, Terrisporobacter, and Faecalitalea compared with the prebiotic group at 3 months. CONCLUSION: Prebiotics are a potentially novel, inexpensive, low-risk treatment addition for T1D that may improve glycemic control. Further larger-scale trials are needed.

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The record

Venue
The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism
Topic
Gut microbiota and health
Field
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
Canadian institutions
University of Calgary
Funders
not available
Keywords
PrebioticIntestinal permeabilityGlycemicGut floraPlaceboRoseburiaInternal medicineType 1 diabetesMedicineInulinGastroenterologyDiabetes mellitusType 2 diabetesDiabetic ketoacidosisInsulinEndocrinologyLactobacillusBiologyImmunologyFood sciencePathology
Has abstract in OpenAlex
yes